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Auction: 317 - The Collector's Series
Lot: 1064

Tennyson, Alfred, First Baron. Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during most of Queen Victoria's reign, still today one of Britain's most popular poets. Autograph Poem Signed "Tennyson". One page on stationery card (6 x 4 ½") with printed, "Harringford, Freshwater, isle of Wight" Dec. 6th, 1887. Signed excerpt from Tennyson's medley, "the Princess", all in his hand: "Ask me no more: the moon may draw the sea, The cloud may stoop from Heaven, & take the shape, With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape, But, O too fond, where here I answer'd thee? Ask me no more!". Very Fine. Matted with a fine engraving of Tennyson and framed.

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