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11 Feb. 1851
Part of Papers of Richard Monckton Milnes, Lord Houghton
Pickering's Shop. - Came to Pickering's to check the metre of In Memoriam against Sidney; quotes Arcadia. Tennyson probably based metre on old sonnet form; quotes sonnet and discusses problems in construction. 'Sydney [sic] was the most determined & ingenious & enterprising rhymester I have met with...'