My greatest debt is to Sir Charles Tennyson, the poet’s grandson, for his published work on Tennyson, which is here drawn on throughout; for his personal assistance which has been most generous; and for his permission to make use of Tennyson MSS. My thanks are also due to the present Lord Tennyson for the interest he has shown in the edition and for permission to quote a great deal of copyright material including Tennyson MSS.
Macmillan and Co. have kindly given permission to quote from the Eversley edition of Tennyson’s Works; Alfred Tennyson: A Memoir by Hallam Tennyson (1897); and Works (1913); and to reprint The Devil and the Lady (1930) and Unpublished Early Poems (1931). The Twentieth Century has also kindly given permission to reprint The Christ of Ammergau, which was first published in its pages in January 1955.
For help of many kinds, my gratitude is due to: John Barnard; W. Rayner Batty; Sir Benjamin C. Brodie; A. N. Bryan-Brown; Rowland L. Collins; Martin Dodsworth; Miss M. J. Donahue (Mrs Ellmann); Philip L. Elliott; David Fleeman; William E. Fredeman; Miss Joyce Green (Mrs Garnier); Miss Elaine Hasløv; David Jeffcock; Mrs Catherine Barham Johnson; John Killham; Cecil Y. Lang; W. S. G. Macmillan; George O. Marshall, Jr; J. C. Maxwell; Stephen Orgel; W. D. Paden; R. L. Purdy; Ralph Wilson Rader; Edgar F. Shannon, Jr; B. C. Southam; John Sparrow; John Spedding; Mrs Marguerite Sussman; Alfred Tennyson d’Eyncourt; Mrs Ruth Tennyson d’Eyncourt; Chilton Thomson. The General Editor of this series, F. W. Bateson, has been most generous with his time, his knowledge and his vigilance.
Of the libraries which have made possible this edition, my greatest debts are due to the Tennyson Research Centre housed in the City Library, Lincoln, and its director, Mr F. T. Baker; to the Houghton Library at Harvard; to the Bodleian Library, Oxford; and to Trinity College, Cambridge. Among other libraries which have been of great assistance are: the Bapst Library, Boston College; the British Museum; the Brotherton Library, Leeds; the University Library, Cambridge; the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge; the University of Hawaii; the Huntington Library; the Lincolnshire Archives Committee; the University of London Library; the Mitchell Library, Sydney; the Pierpont Morgan Library; the National Library of Australia; the New York Public Library, especially the Berg Collection; the Royal College of Music; the University of Texas; the Victoria and Albert Museum; the University of Virginia; Yale University Library.
This second edition is indebted yet again to many of the above, and to: Michael Alexander; Marilyn Butler; Philip Collins; Aidan Day; David De Laura; E. E. Duncan-Jones; Roger Evans; Philip Gaskell; J. M. Gray; Eric Griffiths; Philip Headley; Timothy Hobbs; Mary Barham Johnson; Jack Kolb; Jim McCue; Roderic Owen; Thomas R. Schuck; Joseph Sendry; Susan Shatto; Marion Shaw; Sir John Simeon; John Russell Taylor; and Hallam Tennyson. I owe a particular debt to Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon for their generosity with their work on the Letters.
The curator of the Robert H. Taylor Collection at Princeton University has kindly given permission to quote MSS, as have the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at the University of Rochester Library, and the Syndics of Cambridge University for MSS in the University Library.
Quotations from the MSS at Trinity College, Cambridge, are by the permission of Lord Tennyson and Lord Tennyson’s Trustees, and with the approval of the Master and Fellows.