BIB_ID
115987
Accession number
MA 466.2
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1842 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 11.7 cm
Notes
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.
The fragment is signed "A. Tennyson."
This fragment contains stanzas 7 and 10 of the Conclusion section of the poem which John Churton Collins indicates in his Introduction to "The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (London: Methuen & Co., 1901, p. 107) were added to the poem in 1842.
Two stanzas of 4 lines each.
The fragment is signed "A. Tennyson."
This fragment contains stanzas 7 and 10 of the Conclusion section of the poem which John Churton Collins indicates in his Introduction to "The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson (London: Methuen & Co., 1901, p. 107) were added to the poem in 1842.
Two stanzas of 4 lines each.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Being an autograph copy of the 7th and 10th stanzas of the Conclusion of his poem New Year's Eve.
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