TENNYSON ALFRED Autograph Letter Signed

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TENNYSON, ALFRED. Autograph Letter Signed, to Sir John Simeon, concerning a visit and the poor weather. Endorsed on verso by his wife. 1 page, folded 8vo sheet, with integral leaf, mourning stationery. [Farrington], 5 October 1855

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"A Scotch miffle I shouldn't mind but just as I was starting for Swainston came such a thundrous deluge of rain that I, unwillingly, believe me, gave up the hope of seeing you . . . Yours, anathematizing the weather . . ."
Sir John Simeon was a close friend of Tennyson's for whom he wrote the elegy "In the Garden at Swainston."