Aberystwith, Tennyson at, 144
Acworth, Dr., at Cheltenham, with
Tennyson, 219, 220

Adams, Professor, astronomy with the
Tennysons at Oxford, 324

Eschylus, story about his poetry, 9, 10
Akbar's Dream, Tennyson working
upon, 744

Alamayu, Prince, with Captain Speedy
at Farringford, 463

Albany, Duchess of, lunching at Ald-
worth, 738

Albany, lines on death of Duke of, 785
Albert, Prince Consort, in conjunction

with the Queen appointing Tennyson
to the Laureateship, 280; visit to
Farringford, 349; letter to Tennyson
about the Idylls, 382; death of, 402
Aldworth, its original name, 453;

Tennyson lays foundation- stone of,
461; Mrs. Tennyson's journal at,
500; Tourgueneff and Mr. Ralston
at, 505;
the Gladstones, Mrs.
Greville, Fanny Kemble, Lord
Houghton, Huxley, and Mr. Knowles
visiting at, 507 - 509; Aubrey de
Vere on, 593; Sir Ed. Hamley at,
666; Lord Napier of Magdala at,
693; Mary Anderson at, 707; Mr.
Venables at, 709; Duchess of Albany
at, 738; Warren, Mr. and Mrs.
Herbert, at, 741; visitation of a
'reciting" American at, 744; de-
scription of, 763

Alfieri returned to Tennyson, 62
Alford, Dean, at Cambridge, 30
Alice, Princess, the, Tennyson sends
dedication of the Idylls to, on death
of Prince Albert, 402; letter to
Tennyson in reply, 403

Farringford, 386; letter from Tenny-
son about an old novel, and after
his return from the Pyrenees, 399;
letter from Tennyson about the dedi-
cation of the Idylls to Prince Albert ;
another, on breach of social con-
fidence, 404, 405; two short letters,
406; letter from Tennyson describ-
ing Gladstone at Cliveden, 414;
letter from Tennyson describing
Garibaldi, 418; letters from Tenny-
son about joining Dr. Johnson's
Club, 432, 433; letter to Tennyson
announcing his election, 433; letter
from Tennyson about a sonnet by
the Marquis of Lorne, and Mr.
Lowe's quoting his poetry in the
House, 444; letter from Tennyson
about The Reign of Law, and men-
tioning Longfellow's gift of a pipe,
454; letter from Tennyson asking
for a living for Mr. Fox, 485; letter
from Tennyson about Lionel's en-
gagement, 596; letter to Tennyson
about Cross-bills, 715; personal
characteristics of Tennyson, 855-858
Arkwright, Mrs., sets Oriana to music,
79

Arnold, Matthew, opinion of Timbuc-

too, 39; meeting Tennyson in Lon-
don, 607

Art for Art's Sake (epigram), 494;

comp., 70I

Ashburton, Lord and Lady, Tennyson
staying with, 348

Assegai, the, Colonel Crozier lends
Tennyson for a cruise, 743
Astronomy, with Dr. Mann at Bon-
church, 323; with Professors Adam
and Johnson at Oxford, 324; dis-
coursing on, with Professor Jebb,
701; Norman Lockyer's remark
about Tennyson's love for, 739;
knowledge of, 760

Atkinson (son of a Somersby brick-
layer), letter to Tennyson from
America, 553

At the Window: Songs of the Wrens,
449; musical setting and publication
of, 500

Audley Court, written at Torquay, 138;

notes on, 163

Austen, Miss, Tennyson's and Hal-

lam's opinions on her novels, 71,

498, 730; her novel Persuasion in-
duces Tennyson to visit Lynie,
456
Autograph, lines in reply to a request
for, 739

Auvergne and the Pyrenees, tour in,
397-399

Aylmer's Field, completion of diffi-
culties of composition, 415

Bailey Gate, Dorsetshire, Hallam and
Lionel left with their tutor at, 435
Baker, Sir Samuel and Lady, 547
Balin and Balan, 529-534, 685
Ballads and Poems, publication of,
626; notes upon-story of Phoebe
Hessel (Rispah), The Northern
Cobbler, The Revenge, The Sisters,
The Children's Hospital, Defence of
Lucknow, Columbus, etc. etc., 626-
632

Balliol, Master of. See Jowett
Balzac's novels, Tennyson's admiration
for, 596

Bamford, Mrs. Gaskell describes to
Forster his admiration for Tenny-
son's poems, 236; delight on re-
ceiving a presentation copy, 237;
letter of thanks to Tennyson, 238
Baronetcy offered to Tennyson through
Gladstone, 537, 538; offered again,
through Disraeli, 551-553

Barton, Susan, engaged to Sterling, 61
Battenberg, Princess Henry of (Princess

Beatrice), lines on marriage of, 682;
Tennyson invited by the Queen to
the marriage of, 788; letter from
Tennyson to, 793

Baumber's Farm not The Moated
Grange, 4

Bayne, Peter, criticism on Lady Clare,
Tennyson's reply, 735
Beaconsfield, Lord. See Disraeli
Beatrice, Princess. See Battenberg
Becket, publication of, and notes and

letters on, 580-585, 635; Lady
Archibald Campbell acting in, 691
Beddoes', T. L., Death's Jest Book,
393

Bedingfeld, Sir Henry, Bart., letter to

Tennyson about his ancestry and the
play of Queen Mary, 570; Tenny-
son's reply, 571

Beech Hill, description of leaving, 146

Beere, Mrs. Bernard, produces The
Promise of May, 640, 641
Beethoven's music, Tennyson's fond-
ness for, 450

Bell, Currer, letter to Tennyson, with
copy of poems by "Ellis," Acton,"
and herself, 218

Bennett, W. C., letter from Hallam
Tennyson about his father's views on
the Irish Church Bill, 464; letter
from the poet thanking, for a poem,
515

Benson, Archbishop, and Mrs. Benson
at Farringford, 395

Béranger, Tennyson's opinion of, 772
Bernhardt, Sarah, in Phèdre, 764
Bismarck, Prince, reading Tennyson's
Queen Mary, 568

Blackburne, Bewicke, letter to Tenny-
son on his eighty-second birthday,
243

Blackdown, 453, 455

Blacksmith, Tennyson's letter to a, 672
Blakesley, Dean, description of Tenny-

son at Cambridge, 30; gaining the
Chancellor's Medal, 32; letter to
Tennyson about Cambridge, 59
Boadicea, written, 367

Bonchurch, Tennyson staying at, star-
gazing with Dr. Mann, 323
Bourne, Mrs. (Tennyson's aunt), her
rigid Calvinism, 12

Boussod Valadon et Cie. publish three

poems, illustrated by Ed. Lear, 723
Bowring, Sir John, reviews poems,
41

Boxley, the Tennysons at, 152
Boyd-Carpenter. See Ripon, Bishop of
Boyle, Audrey, marriage with Hallam
Tennyson, 674

Boyle, Mary, 664; at Farringford, 665
Bradley, Dean, reminiscences of Tenny-

son, 170-173; letter from Tennyson
about Arnold's poems, 346; visiting
Farringford with Mrs. Bradley, 392-
394, 395, 396; Tennyson with, at
Marlborough, 445; Tennyson with,
at Westminster, 647

Bradley, Mrs., reminiscences written

of Tennyson at Farringford during
visits there with Dean Bradley, 392-
394, 395, 396; Tennyson relates
The Lover's Tale to, 458; more
reminiscences of Tennyson,

458,

897

459; further reminiscences during
the completion of the Idylls, 495
Bradshaw, Miss, lines written for, 204
Brassey, Lord, lends his yacht The
Sunbeam to Tennyson, 716

Breton Poet, Hippolyte Lucas, letter
to, 324

Bridal, The, written after reading Scott's
Bride of Lammermoor, 22
Brimley, George, letter from Tennyson
about Maud, 344

British Freedom, Fragment on, 119
Britons, Guard Your Own, 288
Brittany, tour in, 420

Brodie, Dr., about Tennyson's eyes, 68
Bronté. See Bell, Currer

Brook, The, MS. rescued from waste-
basket, 105

Brookfield, W. H., at Cambridge, 30;

poem to, 31; Dr. Thompson's re-
miniscences of, 31; on Tennyson's
muscular power, 66; humorous letter
from, to Tennyson, and asking him
for a sonnet, 106, 107; letter from
Tennyson, 286; seeing Tennyson
off for Portugal, 368; death of, 545
Brookfield, Magdalen, 444

Brookfield, Mrs., joint letter to, and

her husband from Tennyson, 286;
letter from Tennyson on death of
her husband, 545; letter from Tenny-
son on marriage of her son, 602
Brooks, Phillips, at Farringford, de-
scription of Tennyson, 665
Brotherton, Mary, letter to, from Savile

Morton describing dinner given by
Thackeray, 153

Browning, Robert, Paracelsus published,
41; working with his wife at Flor-
ence, Frederick Tennyson describes,
321; dines with, and the Rossettis
in London, 328; reads Maud to,
328; letter to Tennyson about
various poems, 429; letter to Tenny-
son with a volume of poems, letter
from Tennyson in reply, 440; dining
with Tennyson, 444; letter from
FitzGerald to Tennyson about poems
of, 469; letter from Tennyson thank-
ing, for a ghost story, and admiring
Mr. Johnson's translation of In Me-
moriam, 503; Red Cotton Nightcap,
538, 539; with the Tennysons in
London, 545; letters to Tennyson

about Queen Mary, 568, 571; letter
about Harold, 576; Tennyson's
reply, 576; conversations with, bur-
lesque verses, note from Tennyson,
610-612; admiration for The Cup,
634 Tennyson's criticism on his
poems, 657; dedication of Tiresias
volume to, 685; letter to Tennyson
about the new Locksley Hall, 697;
letter to Tennyson after his illness,
714; letter to Tennyson on his
birthday, 720; Tennyson's reply,
721; death of, 728
Browning, Mrs., 136; letter from
Tennyson announcing birth of
Hallam, her reply, Tennyson's
second note, 299; letter to Mrs.
Tennyson on being invited to chris-
tening, 301; her work with her
husband at Florence, 321; letter to
Mrs. Tennyson on Tennyson's read-
ing of Maud, 328; letter to Mrs.
Tennyson about Tennyson's illness,
355; death of her father, allusion to
her son, 355

Bruce, Lady Augusta (afterwards Lady
Augusta Stanley), letter from Tenny-
son acknowledging promise of por-
traits from the Queen, 407; letter to
Tennyson on Princess of Wales'
arrival in England, 411; letter from
Tennyson referring to the Queen,
412

Bruno, Giordano, 773

Brunswick, the Tennysons at, curious
marriage custom, 439

Bryce, Rt. Hon. J., letter to Tennyson
about Becket, 585
Buckton, Mr., 455

Buller, Charles, at Cambridge, 30
Bulwer, Lytton, attack on Tennyson,

and the satire in Punch, 203, 517
Burgoyne, Sir John, at Balliol, on
Tennyson's inauguration as Doctor
at Oxford, 323

Burne-Jones, Sir Ed., and Ruskin at
the Prinseps, 360; The Briar Rose,
738

Burns, anecdote about his poems, 176;

Tennyson visiting his ground, 234
Burton, Mrs., letters from Tennyson
about standing godfather to her
child, 197, 198

Butler, Arthur, with Max Müller, show.

ing the Tennysons round Oxford,
324

By a Brook, unpublished poem, 46
By a Darwinian (unpublished epigram),
465

By an Evolutionist, 715

Byron, Lord, inscription carved by
Tennyson at Somersby on death of,
3; passage from Dante prefixed to
The Corsair, 6; Rev. "Sam." Tur-
ner's impatience of poems of, 10;
Tennyson on, 659, 742

Calling of the Sea," 215
Cambridge, 28-62; Macaulay and
Whewell on, 57, 58; Tennyson's
lines on, 58; extension movement,
58; Blakesley writes about, 59; re-
visited by Tennyson with Palgrave,
372; intended degree to be taken at,
396; made Hon. Fellow of Trinity,
492; visits again, 543, 692
Cameron, Mr., at Freshwater, 487
Cameron, Mrs., letter from Tennyson

about birth of Lionel, 313; dining
with, 328; her photographs, 487;
Sir Henry Taylor and Tennyson dining
with, her theatre, 488

Campbell, Lady Archibald, acting in
Becket at Wimbledon, 691
Campbell, Thomas, death of, 184;
poetry, 660

Canada, 515, 516, 536

Cardwell, Lady, sending Tennyson's
poems to Gordon, 606

Carlyle, Mrs., description of Tennyson,

157; letter to Mrs. Tennyson reply-
ing to invitation to Freshwater, 351;
Tennyson's remark on her married
life, 613

Carlyle, Thomas, account of Sterling,
describes typical undergraduate, the
Society of the Apostles, 35, 36; con-
tempt for poetry, 66; sends descrip-
tion of Tennyson to Emerson, 156;
another description for his brother
John, 156; exhorts Tennyson to
leave verse for prose writing," a Life-
Guardsman spoilt," 157; letter to
Tennyson, admiration for the poems,
179; Lord Houghton's story of, re-
garding Tennyson's pension, 188;
writing Cromwell's life, 189; night
walks and talks with Tennyson, their