Item 10a - Draft of Audley Court by Alfred Tennyson

1 sheet.

A letter from FitzGerald to Tennyson, 4 Dec. 1864, asks if he would have 'any objection to my giving two or three of the leaves of your old “Butcher’s Book” (do you remember?) to the Library at Trinity College? An admirer of yours there told me they would be glad of some such thing—It was in 1842, when you were printing the two good old volumes:—in Spedding’s rooms—and the “Butcher’s Book,” after its margins serving for pipe-lights, went leaf by leaf into the fire: and I told you I would keep two or three leaves of it as a remembrance. So I took a bit of my old favourite “Audley Court”: and a bit of another, I forget which: for I can’t lay my hands on them just now. But when I do, I shall give them to Trinity College unless you are strongly opposed'.

Gift of Edward Fitzgerald, 19 May 1865, through Rev. W. Airy.

Untitled manuscript. Audley Court goes by the name of 'Oxley Hall' in this version.

Portion of bottom right of sheet missing.