Tennyson and his friends

To those who have contributed to this volume their memories of my father, criticisms of his work, or records of his friends, I owe a deep debt of gratitude. Three of the writers, Henry Butcher, Sir Alfred Lyall, and Graham Dakyns, have lately, to my great loss, passed away--into that fuller "light of friendship"--

"a clearer day Than our poor twilight dawn on earth."

TENNYSON.

[The following chapters about my father are arranged, as far as possible, according to the sequence of his life. Further reminiscences by the Duke of Argyll, Gladstone, Jowett, Lecky, Locker-Lampson, Palgrave, Lord Selborne, Tyndall, Aubrey de Vere, and other friends, will be found in Tennyson, a Memoir.]

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RECOLLECTIONS OF MY EARLY LIFE. By EMILY, LADY TENNYSON 3

TENNYSON AND LINCOLNSHIRE. By WILLINGHAM RAWNSLEY-- I. TENNYSON'S COUNTRY 8 II. THE SOMERSBY FRIENDS 18

TENNYSON AND HIS BROTHERS, FREDERICK AND CHARLES. By CHARLES TENNYSON 33

TENNYSON ON HIS CAMBRIDGE FRIENDS-- ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM 71 TO JAMES SPEDDING 72 TO EDWARD FITZGERALD 75 TO JOHN MITCHELL KEMBLE 78 TO J. W. BLAKESLEY 78 TO R. C. TRENCH 79 TO THE REV. W. H. BROOKFIELD 80 TO EDMUND LUSHINGTON 81 CHARLES TENNYSON-TURNER 86

TENNYSON AND LUSHINGTON. By SIR HENRY CRAIK, K.C.B., M.P. 89

TENNYSON, FITZGERALD, CARLYLE, AND OTHER FRIENDS. By DR. WARREN, President of Magdalen College, Oxford, and now Professor of Poetry 98

SOME RECOLLECTIONS OF TENNYSON'S TALK FROM 1835 TO 1853. By EDWARD FITZGERALD 142

TENNYSON AND THACKERAY. By LADY RITCHIE 148

TENNYSON ON HIS FRIENDS OF LATER LIFE-- TO W. C. MACREADY 157 TO THE REV. F. D. MAURICE 157 TO SIR JOHN SIMEON 159 TO EDWARD LEAR ON HIS TRAVELS IN GREECE 160 TO THE MASTER OF BALLIOL 161 TO THE DUKE OF ARGYLL 162 TO GIFFORD PALGRAVE 162 TO THE MARQUIS OF DUFFERIN AND AVA 165 TO W. E. GLADSTONE 167 TO MARY BOYLE 168 W. G. WARD 171 TO SIR RICHARD JEBB 171 TO GENERAL HAMLEY 172 LORD STRATFORD DE REDCLIFFE 173 GENERAL GORDON 173 G. F. WATTS, R.A. 173

TENNYSON AND BRADLEY (DEAN OF WESTMINSTER). By MARGARET L. WOODS 175

NOTES ON CHARACTERISTICS OF TENNYSON. By the late MASTER OF BALLIOL (PROFESSOR JOWETT) 186

TENNYSON, CLOUGH, AND THE CLASSICS. By HENRY GRAHAM DAKYNS 188

RECOLLECTIONS OF TENNYSON. By the Rev. H. MONTAGU BUTLER, D.D., Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 206

TENNYSON AND W. G. WARD AND OTHER FARRINGFORD FRIENDS. By WILFRID WARD 222

TENNYSON AND ALDWORTH. By SIR JAMES KNOWLES, K.C.V.O. 245

THE FUNERAL OF DICKENS 253

FRAGMENTARY NOTES OF TENNYSON'S TALK. By ARTHUR COLERIDGE 255

MUSIC, TENNYSON, AND JOACHIM. By SIR CHARLES STANFORD 272

THE ATTITUDE OF TENNYSON TOWARDS SCIENCE. By SIR OLIVER LODGE, F.R.S. 280

TENNYSON AS A STUDENT AND POET OF NATURE. By SIR NORMAN LOCKYER, F.R.S. 285

MEMORIES. By E. V. B. 292

TENNYSON AND HIS TALK ON SOME RELIGIOUS QUESTIONS. By the Right Rev. the BISHOP OF RIPON 295

TENNYSON AND SIR JOHN SIMEON, AND TENNYSON'S LAST YEARS. By LOUISA E. WARD 306

SIR JOHN SIMEON. By AUBREY DE VERE 321

TENNYSON. By ARTHUR SIDGWICK, Fellow of Corpus Christi, Oxford, and sometime Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge 322

TENNYSON: HIS LIFE AND WORK. By the Right Hon. SIR ALFRED LYALL, G.C.B. 344

TENNYSON: THE POET AND THE MAN. By PROFESSOR HENRY BUTCHER 385

JAMES SPEDDING. By W. ALDIS WRIGHT, Vice-Master of Trinity College, Cambridge 393

ARTHUR HENRY HALLAM. By DR. JOHN BROWN 441

APPENDICES

A. THE COMMENTS OF TENNYSON ON ONE OF HIS LATER ETHICAL POEMS 475

B. "HANDS ALL ROUND," SET TO MUSIC BY EMILY, LADY TENNYSON 481

C. MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS FROM UNKNOWN FRIENDS 485