Alfred Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other Poems

[...]; Ifan Kyrle Fletcher; Albert E. Marshall, Providence, Rhode Island (from 5/24/1944); (Swann Galleries, New York, February 14, 1952, lot 67); [Richard S. Wormser]

This copy lacks the title page & Cameron's portrait of Tennyson.

Accompanying letter reads:

ENVELOPE:

Dec. 15
Frances W. Fox Esq.
Grove House
Stoke Bishop
Near Bristol

LETTER:

Fresh Water Bay
Isle of Wight
Dec. 15th 74

Dear Sir

I have had the pleasure to despatch Your Book to you carefully packed by Passenger Train today. I paid the carriage as far as possible It is the first copy issued - and I am quite pleased to think that the Bristol Art Society will so soon see my Book & that you should possess it

our great laureate Alfred Tennyson himself is very much pleased with this ideal representation of his Idylls & his own Portrait is the one he most likes indeed it is like one of the Prophets of Old.

The hollow oak in the Merlin came off the Poet's own grounds. I might have waited a hundred years before such a perfect thing had been prepared for me & another hundred before I could find such another Merlin as my Husband

With our best regards
Yours faithfully
Julia Margaret Cameron

The beauty of the heroines is evident to every one

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