TENNYSON | autograph letter signed, to Queen Victoria, [1883]

TENNYSON, ALFRED, LORD

AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED ("A TENNYSON"), TO QUEEN VICTORIA

informing her that he has just returned home and found her letter on his proposed epitaphs for John Brown ("...To me all the quotations which I suggested seemed more or less applicable but since your majesty's choice has fallen upon the anonymous one, I have no doubt that is the most so..."), 1 page, 8vo, integral blank, headed stationery of Aldworth, Hazlemere, Sussex, n.d. [1883], with typescript transcription

The anonymous epitaph, one of three options that Tennyson had suggested to commemorate John Brown, was a couplet of his own devising. It was engraved on the plinth of a statue of Brown erected at Balmoral (see lot 125).

This letter is almost certainly an unsent draft.

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