BIB_ID
115973
Accession number
MA 466.10
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
[July 1850].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 15.7 cm
Notes
Editors Lang and Shannon in their "The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson", noted below, date this letter to July 1850; the autograph letter is undated.
Part of a collection of poems and letters from Alfred Tennyson. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Tennyson refers to the revisions as those for Poem LII; in fact, these revisions apply to the 2nd stanza of Poem LIII.
The first edition of "In Memoriam" was privately printed in 1850 for family and friends; the second and third editions were published in the same year.
Written from "Tent Lodge / Coniston Water / Ambleside."
Part of a collection of poems and letters from Alfred Tennyson. Items in this collection have been described individually in separate catalog records; see collection-level record for more information.
Tennyson refers to the revisions as those for Poem LII; in fact, these revisions apply to the 2nd stanza of Poem LIII.
The first edition of "In Memoriam" was privately printed in 1850 for family and friends; the second and third editions were published in the same year.
Written from "Tent Lodge / Coniston Water / Ambleside."
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Regarding revisions to the 2nd stanza of Poem LII[I] that he would like included in the 3rd edition; asking about the bound copy he requested be sent to his aunt, Mrs. Russell.
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