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Houghton Library has purchased the world's most impressive collection of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's manuscripts, William A. Jackson, director of Houghton Library, announced yesterday. The collection includes 350 poems in first drafts and revisions as Tennyson himself wrote them, Jackson stated yesterday in an announcement made by the library...
Over Sherwood's desk the group photographs were of Shakespeare, Dante, Goethe, Keats, Byron, Shelly, Longfellow, Gilbert, Tennyson, Poe and others, but right in the center was an enlarged picture of Robert Emmet Sherwood that nobody could possibly overlook. Above my piano I had an equally large picture of music publisher Powers, surrounded by photographs and prints of Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Sullivan, Wagner, Bizet, Liszt and others. Sherry and Powers associated only with the best. Nights when our shows were produced we would get over to the "Pudding Theatre" ahead of time and see that the folders holding the scores...
GEORGE P. TENNYSON...
GEORGE P. TENNYSON JR. Lieutenant, U.S.A.F. Albany...
...Remembered. The 19th century was a great age of illustration, as of literature, although the British writers of the time were inclined to ignore the fact. Lewis Carroll never reconciled himself to Tenniel's drawings for Alice in Wonderland, which seem so right as to be almost inevitable. Tennyson, who did not care for art, was simply indifferent to the best efforts of Pre-Raphaelites Dante Gabriel Rossetti and William Holman Hunt to illustrate his poems. William Thackeray, Edward Lear and W. S. Gilbert were better pleased, for they illustrated their own work...