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The Tennyson Research Centre, in the dome of Lincoln Central Library, is the most significant collection on Alfred Tennyson in the world.
Highlights for the visitor include:
- The letter of sympathy from Queen Victoria to Tennyson on the death of his son
- The copy of Through the Looking Glass that Lewis Carroll gave to Tennyson
- Prince Albert's letter to Tennyson asking for his autograph
- The altered drafts of The Charge of The Light Brigade
- Cameron's photographs of 'King Arthur' Hand-illustrated editions by enthusiastic amateurs
For further details including resources for the researcher download the attached PDF leaflet.
For information on the contents of the other libraries, letters and illustrations, please contact tennyson@lincolnshire.gov.uk Many thanks to Victoria Sandbrook, Ben Stoker, Linda Richardson, Rachel Traves and Ros Boyce for all their hard work in typing the data.
As part of efforts to increase access to this collection, some of the holdings of the Tennyson Research Centre are available to search online through Cultural Collections . For more information on Cultural Collections see: Searching Cultural Collections
Last Updated: 22 October 2009
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