Album, 1853-1898.

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Album, 1853-1898.

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Letters, literary fragments, and portrait sketches by, to, and about Alfred Tennyson and members of his family and Julia Margaret Cameron and her family, who were his friends and neighbors in the Isle of Wight. Thirty letters and other items by members of the Tennyson family (several to the Camerons) and thirteen letters to Julia or Henry Cameron by other people. Principal topics of the letters include the writings of Tennyson and other authors; photographs by Julia Cameron and portraits of Tennyson by other artists; personal business; and news of family and friends. Correspondents include Alfred Tennyson, his wife Emily, their sons Hallam and Lionel, Alfred's brother Frederick, and his brother-in-law E.L. Lushington; Julia Cameron and her son Henry Herschel Hay Cameron; W. Davenport Adams, William Cox Bennett, Richard Doyle, James Everett, Holman Hunt, Alexander Ireland, Henry S. King, Samuel Laurence, Edward lear, Julian Marshall, Joseph Parker, Tom Taylor, Ellen Terry, George Frederick Watts, and Thomas Woolner. Also present are two pages of verse fragments by Alfred Tennyson; AMs final leaf of a play, "Essex," by Hallam Tennyson; a printed sheet of hymns from Hallam Tennyson's wedding; two sketches of Alfred Tennyson, one signed with the monogram "EMS" or "SEM"; an envelope addressed to John Gordon Crawford, and two short verses written directly on leaves of the album, by Joseph Parker and James Everett.

1 v. (45 items) ; 24 cm.

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