BIB_ID
115989
Accession number
MA 466.4
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
[1850-1892].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 18.3 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.
Tennyson was named Poet Laureate in November 1850; the dedication "To the Queen" is dated March 1851 in the printed version of the 7th edition of his "Poems."
The printed version of this poem is dated March 1851; stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 8 of this autograph manuscript appear in the printed version; this manuscript cannot be dated with more specificity than the range given above.
Tennyson was named Poet Laureate in November 1850; the dedication "To the Queen" is dated March 1851 in the printed version of the 7th edition of his "Poems."
The printed version of this poem is dated March 1851; stanzas 3, 6, 7 and 8 of this autograph manuscript appear in the printed version; this manuscript cannot be dated with more specificity than the range given above.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Being an autograph manuscript of 8 four-line stanzas, 4 of which were included, 3 stanzas with revisions, in Tennyson's dedication "To the Queen" in the 7th edition of his "Poems, by Alfred Tennyson."
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