Autographs

Lot 4038    Session 13 (2.30pm Thursday 26 March)    Autographs

Estimate $250
Bid at live.noble.com.au

ALFRED LORD TENNYSON SIGNATURE, in ink on manuscript bank draft of a folded page (18x11.5cm folded), in his hand to his lawyer, Odling Osborne & Co, Clement's Lane, London, posted from Freshwater with one penny stamp hand cancelled 'July 18th 1862' and stamped 'PAID', across centre is written, 'Pay M Jerennal Nerwood (or Merwood) or order eleven pounds and at bottom left corner '�11', crossed diagonally with two lines and written '& Co', in centre oval bank stamp of London & Westminister Bank, Lothbury, also stamp of National Provincial Bank of England ??? (illegible), signed 'A Tennyson', on back written in ink, 'Isu.Mist (?) Merwood/his mark (with X beside)', below 'Witness (signed) J.F.Isaacson'. Second, light bank stamp over signature, scattered light creasing and wrinkling, otherwise very good.

With letter of authenticity of PSA/DNA Autograph Authentication Team, certificate of authenticity of RR Auction and biographical notes on Tennyson.

The witness, John Frederick Isaacson was the Rector of All Saints, the Freshwater parish church on the Isle of Wight where Tennyson lived. In 1884 Queen Victoria created Tennyson as Baron Tennyson, of Aldworth in the County of Sussex and of Freshwater in the Isle of Wight.