Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration: _Alfred, Lord Tennyson (in his 80th year)_ _Barraud, photographer Emery Walker, Ph.sc._] TENNYSON AND HIS FRIENDS EDITED BY HALLAM, LORD TENNYSON MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON 1911 Dedicated TO THE FRIENDS OF TENNYSON BY HIS SON PREFACE 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_.] CONTENTS PAGE 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