BIB_ID
450731
Accession number
MA 14560.2
Creator
Ingelow, Jean, 1820-1897, sender.
Display Date
London, England, 1879? May 12
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 18.1 x 11.3 cm
Notes
Addressed to "Dear Dr Gatty".
Written on black-edged mourning stationery paper, with letterhead reading: 6, Holland Road, / Addison Road, / Kensington, W.
The pamphlet mentioned here is probably Alfred Gatty's 45 page pamphlet entitled "A key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam", published in 1879 and later expanded to 144 pages and published under the same title in 1881.
Written on black-edged mourning stationery paper, with letterhead reading: 6, Holland Road, / Addison Road, / Kensington, W.
The pamphlet mentioned here is probably Alfred Gatty's 45 page pamphlet entitled "A key to Tennyson's 'In Memoriam", published in 1879 and later expanded to 144 pages and published under the same title in 1881.
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Thanking him for sending her his pamphlet, assuring him that she read "every word of it", and ging on write that "this poem is unique in literature: so far as I am any judge it seems to me that you interpret rightly but I do not at all accept the idea you add in your letter. If in any sort or sense you make it to mean sorrow concerning the living - make it a love poem in fact it becomes commonplace", and adding that "It is his 'peculiar difference' for which I mainly admire Tennyson."
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