University of Virginia Library

TENNYSONIANA

• Lord Tennyson's Funeral. A collection of items: 1. Three official tickets for admission to the Funeral Service at Westminster Abbey, with the official black seal of the Dean on each. Mourner's ticket.
• 2. Order of service at the Funeral. Pamphlet printed on 3 pages (page 4, blank). Quarto. Containing in full "Crossing the Bar" and "Silent Voices".
• 3. Leaflet, 16mo. Printed on one side "Crossing the Bar" and on the other, "Silent Voices", with "Not to be taken a way" written at the top.
• 4. The pirated poem with music "Crossing the Bar" with a portrait of Tennyson at the top. Folio printed on 2 pages with the reverse of each blank. This was sold on the streets at the time of the Funeral, but was suppressed. Including case.
• Thomas J. Wise, A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON. 2 vols. London: Printed for Private Circulation, 1908. One of an edition of 100 copies. "Thomas J. Wise" signed on the half-title of each volume. Bookplate of John Arthur Brooke. Presented to the University of Virginia by the Estate of Templeton Crocker.
• Browning (Elizabeth Barrett) and Horne (Richard Hengist) Autograph manuscript, with heading: "Alfred Tennyson". Written on 39 pages of various sizes, some of which are inlaid. This essay appeared as one of the series of biographical sketches in "A New Spirit of the Age". Mrs. Browning wrote four of the 39 pages, which appear in different places, as if they had supplanted certain passages by Horne. A small autograph letter by Miss Barrett is inlaid before the text, in which she writes: "I send you an "Opinion" on Tennyson. Use it or do not use it. He is a divine poet; but I have found it difficult (in the examination of my own thoughts of him) to analyse his divinity & to determine (even to myself) his particular aspect as a writer. What is the reason for it? It never struck me before. A true and divine poet never the less."
• A.L.S. from Macaulay dated from Holly Lodge November 11 1859. "Dear Duke of Argyll, I send you the proof sheets of two of the Laureate's Idyls which you were kind enough to lend me in the summer. As he has made some alterations, he may naturally be unwilling that his poems, in their first form, should be in the hands of a stranger. Will

  ---

  43

  
  
  you dine here on Saturday week, the nineteenth, at half after seven? Ever yours, Macaulay".
• A.L.S. from Emily Tennyson dated from Farringford Feby 17th 1862, and with a narrow mourning band. "My dear Signor [ G. F. Watts], I rejoice to hear that your beautiful and touching portrait is now in a form to be known and delighted in by many. Alfred will of course, send his signature since you desire it. Thinking you may like to have the Dedication we send a copy for you and one for Mrs. Prinsep if she also care to have it. with all kind words. I trust that this winter has dealt gently with you and that you are growing stronger and stronger. Alfred is not well, but thanks to Dr. Jackson's kind care he is certainly in some ways better. With his affectionate regards, I am Most truly yours Emily Tennyson". Enclosed with this is a separate 1862 printing of the Dedication (to the Idylls of the King). This copy agrees with Wise's No. 99 except that the present pages are numbered [ iii], iv-vi, as in the 1862 edition.
• A.L.S. from Emily Tennyson dated Farringford Feby 20th 1862, and with a narrow mourning band. "My dear Signor, I am so sorry that you have been inconvenianced. He always writes his name so now. Thanks for your wish that even his signature should appear to the best advantage. Thank Mrs Prinsep too for this & for her kind little note. How very good in you to think of proofs for us. Most truly yours Emily Tennyson." Tennyson's signature "A Tennyson" is pasted to the note.
• A.L.S. from Emily Tennyson dated June 28th 1863 on notepaper marked Farringford Freshwater. Isle of Wight. "My dear Signor, "This is one of the great pictures that future generations will look at" was one of the exclamations which greeted yours on its arrival. I really can only feel ashamed when I think how much of your time & thought have been spent on me & when I know that it is a picture of myself & such an one that a lady (Lady Grant Sir A's mother) said this morning she almost felt in sitting near it that I could speak to her. I do not know how such a beautiful picture has come but you are a subtle alchemist a great magician that I do know. His thanks he hopes to give in person to-morrow. Ever most truly yours Emily Tennyson".