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Pages from Shepherd's 1866 MS edition of Tennyson's poems recording variorum readings, extracted, bound, and annotated by another - probably Robert Bowes, whose bookplate is at the front. See Add.MS.c.231 for more details. Loose bifolium of notes at the front.

40 Well Walk, Hampstead, N.W. - Should have written before to thank Bob for sending "The New Parsifal": has read it twice with 'great pleasure'', and could 'only find fault in detail'; though it is not as interesting as "Sisyphus" for the 'general public', it has great appeal for 'all aesthetes & intellectuals' who are most likely to read it. Lists a few criticisms, and passages which he particularly enjoys. Thinks Bob 'treat[s] Masefield more unfairly than Longfellow and Tennyson', and does not make as clear a point against him and Longfellow as he does against Tennyson. Is 'rather disappointed' with "New Numbers": thinks [Lascelles] Abercrombie's piece 'mannered in the bad sense' as well as 'allegorical [sic] in the bad sense'. Asks if Bob can 'coin' a word for him meaning 'of all women... or the womancratic... or the slave of all women'. Hopes that Julian is better and that Bob and Bessie are well.

Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey. - Thinks that Trevelyan had better furnish the house [Roundhurst] now; the Tennysons might buy some of the furnishings from him 'at a valuation'. Would advise Trevelyan to bring his own caretaker, who will not 'make a "good thing"' of him as 'the chance [?] Haslemere caretaker might be inclined to do'. Asks to be remembered to Sir George and Lady Trevelyan; Lionel and Aubrey [his sons] send their love.