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I lunched at Farringford. We all helped in wheeling Mrs Tennyson to the top of High Down. Then A. T., the tutor and myself walked to Totland’s Bay, the talk all upon classic metres, of which he is full at present. I am invited for Christmas.
William Allingham: A Diary, pp. 93–4, 117–19, 126–8, 137, 148–51, 156–9, 163.
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Notes
William Barnes (1801–86), philologist and Dorset dialect poet; he was Rector of Came, near Dorchester, from 1862.
Sir Henry Taylor (1800–86), author of numerous verse-dramas.
On Huxley, see p. 109. John Tyndall (1820–93) wrote and lectured widely on scientific topics.
Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), Swedish philosopher and mystic.
Edward Burne-Jones (1833–98), painter and designer.
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Allingham, W. (1983). Visits to Farringford. In: Page, N. (eds) Tennyson. Interviews and Recollections. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-07803-5_18
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