BIB_ID
324472
Accession number
MA 466.11
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
1859-1885.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 7.0 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 added text and deleted phrases in the final published version of this fragment; the phrase "we fight to conquer not to kill" is not in the printed text.
The date of writing of this fragment is unknown, however, the dates ascribed to the writing in this record span the publication dates of the twelve books of "Idylls of the King"; the first Idylls were published in 1859 and the last in 1885; "The Coming of Arthur" was published in 1869.
Tennyson added text and deleted phrases in the final published version of this fragment; the phrase "we fight to conquer not to kill" is not in the printed text.
The date of writing of this fragment is unknown, however, the dates ascribed to the writing in this record span the publication dates of the twelve books of "Idylls of the King"; the first Idylls were published in 1859 and the last in 1885; "The Coming of Arthur" was published in 1869.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from Dodd, Mead & Co. in 1909.
Summary
Being a fragment, with revisions, of seven lines from "The Coming of Arthur" from "Idylls of the King."
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