ID 1108989
Lot 189 | Victoria, Queen of England (1837-1901)
Valeur estimée
£ 1 000 – 1 500
Autograph letter signed with initials (‘V.R.I.’) to Hallam Tennyson, Balmoral Castle, Scotland, 19 October 1892
3½ pages total, 110 x 176mm, bifolium, on Balmoral Castle headed black mourning paper. Envelope. [With:] accompanying transcript in the hand of Emily Tennyson. Provenance: Sotheby's, 21 & 22 July 1980, lot 453.
Expressing heartfelt condolences to Hallam Tennyson upon hearing of the passing of her close friend the Poet Laureate Alfred, Lord Tennyson. The queen imagines of Tennyson’s death that ‘everything must have been most touching and beautiful and worthy’ at the time of ‘the very simple and affecting departure from his once beloved home’. She expresses great concern for Tennyson's widow and professes herself ‘anxious to have a bust of your dear Father at Windsor’ before requesting advice on which existing bust would be the best to have copied.
Victoria acquired a bust of Tennyson, created by Francis Williamson, a year later, in 1893.
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