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8 an uncut copy, is now worth from ten to fifteen pounds, according to condition

Many of the poems in this volume were rejected and omitted from subsequent editions of Tennyson's Minor Poems. Some of these, however, were restored or reinstated in the later collected editions of his Complete Works, Very few of the poems retained were materially, or otherwise than verbally, altered.

Mr. Thompson's copy contained, in addition, an autograph note of his own, giving some account of an eccentric fellow-collegian, Thomas Sunderland, from whom the poem entitled "A Character" was supposed to be drawn.

The Gem, for 1831 (London), an illustrated Annual, contains three original unpublished poems by Alfred Tennyson, never included by the author in any of his subsequent volumes, viz., "No More," "Anacreontics," and "A Fragment," the last-named in blank verse, somewhat in the style of "Timbuctoo." These are reprinted in a small volume entitled "The Lover's Tale and other Poems, now first collected," of which