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14 Tennyson's publisher of that time, Alexander Strahan, to Mr. George Macdonald, the poet and novelist: another was in the collection, and appears in the privately-printed Catalogue, of Mr. Frederick Locker-Lampson. I never saw a copy of it, and it seems to be almost as rare as the original edition.

In the summer of 1870, and again in 1875, under the auspices of the Editor of "Tennysoniana," the Fragment of "The Lover's Tale" was reprinted, for private circulation, from the original edition, as it appeared in 1833. These two unauthorized reprints were rigorously suppressed and called in, and only a few copies of each were actually circulated.

At last, in 1879, the poem was fully published, in a small green cloth volume, by the author, but considerably altered, and in many parts re-written, with the addition of a new third part and a reprint of "The Golden Supper," to form a fourth and final part, in accordance with the scheme abandoned in 1869 (ten years previously), accompanied by an apologetic prose preface, substituted for the original one which was prefixed to the poem as issued in 1833.

The Keepsake, for 1837 (an Illustrated Annual) contains an original verse contribution by