BIB_ID
325823
Accession number
MA 7976
Creator
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892.
Display Date
[1852 Jan. or Feb.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 13.6 cm
Notes
Date of writing inferred from the publication of "For the Penny-wise" in various periodicals, including Fraser's Magazine (February 1852) and the Morning Chronicle (24 January 1852). See also The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1851-1870, ed. Cecil Y. Lang (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1987), p. 22.
Formerly adhered to the back paste-down of his Poems (London: Moxon, 1842), PML 9269.
With a manuscript copy of the third stanza of the poem (beginning "And you - ye brawlers penny-wise") on the verso in an unknown hand.
Formerly adhered to the back paste-down of his Poems (London: Moxon, 1842), PML 9269.
With a manuscript copy of the third stanza of the poem (beginning "And you - ye brawlers penny-wise") on the verso in an unknown hand.
Summary
Sending a poem ["For the Penny-wise"] to be printed in the Times; asking that he remain anonymous and that the poem be subscribed "A Scorner of the Penny-wise." Signed "(private / A Tennyson)."
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