An autograph letter signed 'Tennyson' (dated 28 June 1917), to Pamela Tennant (née Wyndham), Lady Glenconner. The letter concerns the affair between his son Lionel (later 3rd Baron Tennyson, and a first-class cricketer who captained Hampshire and England) and Lady Glenconner's married daughter, The Hon. Clarissa Tennant
The letter is brief enough to quote in full: 'Dear Lady Glenconner, I am deeply distressed not only for myself but also for all of you. Of course one cannot but be very sorry for both of them. I have spoken to L. fully, and he takes a really serious..... More