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TENNYSON, Alfred, 1st Baron (1809-1892). Five autograph letters signed to [A.P.] Stanley, [Dean of Westminster] (3) and Lady Augusta Stanley (2), Farringford and n.p., 29 September 1862 - 21 January 1877 and n.d., together 6 pages, 8vo , one letter to Lady Augusta appended to a letter from Emily Tennyson; with a cut signature of Tennyson attached to a portrait print; (remnants of guards). 'JOYLESS HIMSELF HE MARS NO JOY BUT MAKES THAT OF OTHERS HIS OWN': Tennyson's reverence for Queen Victoria. The poet writes to Lady Augusta Stanley [a woman of the bedchamber to the Queen] on 6 March 1863 enclosing a poem (not present) for submission to the Queen on the occasion of the future Edward VII's marriage to Princess Alexandra -- 'May the Princess prove all to the Queen & the Prince & the Nation that one believes she will'; but Tennyson's thoughts are still much more on the Queen's loss of the Prince Consort: 'I trust that the Queen bears this joy as she bears her lifelong sorrow. One feels that man (or woman) is lifted to a divine height who can so bury his own sorrow far in the sacred depths of the heart that joyless himself he mars no joy but makes that of others his own. This loyal fury of love & devotion is a glorious thing '. Tennyson's brief letter of 21 January the same year (added to a letter from Emily Tennyson about a visit from Benjamin Jowett) again refers to Prince Albert: 'I have been reading this Memorial of the Good Prince & most glad am I to have my own ideal so entirely confirmed by it'. The remaining letters to Dean Stanley again relate to the Queen - in January 1877 sending a copy of his 'Queen Mary' at the Queen's request, although he is quite sure that he has already sent a copy: 'I have the Publisher's Bill for binding it expressly'. On this occasion there is no time to have the volume specially bound. (6)