Add MS 81296

Hallam Papers. Vol. iv (ff. 87). Containing letters of Arthur Henry Hallam (ff. 1-34v) and related papers (ff. 35-35v); — poems by Arthur Henry Hallam (ff. 36-54) — poems occasioned by the death of Arthur Henry Hallam (ff. 55-67v) and related papers (ff. 68-74v) — papers of Eleanor Hallam (ff. 75-87v) and a related item (f. 88).

1. f. 1. Letter, unsigned, to ‘Pip’, i.e. his father. Written from his preparatory school in Putney, where he is in the second class; n.d. circa 1821.

2. ff. 2-3v. Letter, signed, to his father, written from Hawtrey’s House at Eton; postmarked 18 July 1827. He discusses his final debate at Eton, mentioning W. E. Gladstone several times. He records that ‘I parted some time ago with my Byron …. and I am left (which to me is an immense grief) Byronless’.

3. ff. 4-4v. Letter, unsigned, to his aunt, Elizabeth Hallam in Windsor, written probably from Eton; n.d.

4. ff. 5-22v. A series of 14 letters, mostly signed, some only fragments, from Arthur to his Aunt Elizabeth, some addressing her as ‘Liese’. Written from Reene Lodge, Killarney, when Arthur, then aged 14, was on holiday with his mother (whom he calls the ‘Mot’ or ‘Mottle’ or ‘Motmot’), his father and his sister Julia; August – October, n.y. Postmarked 1825. Some contain added material addressed to Elizabeth Hallam from Arthur’s parents and from Julia. One letter (ff. 10-11v) contains a description by Arthur of a stag-hunt accomplished to the sound of bugles and a further two (ff. 12-13v) are accompanied by two pencil sketches (ff. 12 and 13) of Lake Killarney made by Arthur’s mother. The second sketch is entitled ‘Glena Bay’ on the verso. See Arthur’s poem ‘The Bride of the Lake’ in The Eton Miscellany, Vol. 1, no. 5 (1827).

5. ff. 23-24v. Letter, signed, to his Aunt Elizabeth, written from Hawtrey’s House at Eton; postmarked 12 February 1827. He writes about a school debate in which ‘Gaskell made an excellent speech: he is the only witty speaker among us ….’

6. f. 25. Letter, unsigned, written in Italian to his Aunt Elizabeth; n.d. 1827-1828.

7. f.f. 26-27. Letter, signed, written to his Aunt Elizabeth shortly before entering Trinity College, Cambridge; n.d. circa August 1828.

8. ff. 28-31v. Two letters, written to his Aunt Elizabeth while studying at Cambridge; one postmarked 5 February 1829, the other undated circa March 1829 referring to a printed copy he sends her of his poem (i.e. ‘Timbuctoo’), submitted for the Chancellor’s Medal. He says 50 copies had been printed.

9. f. 32. Note, addressed to his Aunt Elizabeth, thanking her for her birthday gift but asking her to stop such commemorations: ‘When I am eighty-two …. it would hardly do’; n.d. February 1833.

10. ff. 33-34v. Letter (copy) to William Bodham Donne; 29 January1832.

11. ff. 35-35v. Moral philosophy notes on Causes and Effects; n.d., 1832. See his letter to J. W. Blakesley, 8 February 1832. (Kolb, pp. 519-520).

12. f. 36. Sonnet ‘Scritto sulla Statua di Lorenzo de’ Medici, Duca d’Urbino, scolpita da Michelangiolo nella chiesa di S. Lorenzo a Firenze’ (‘Deh, chi sei tu, ch’in si superla pietra …’). Transcription in an unknown hand, over the letters A. H. H. and given the place of composition and date ‘Rome 1828’. Published in Poems by A.H. Hallam, Esq., (privately printed 1830), where there are some slight variants, and in Remains in Verse and Prose (1834) with some slight variants in the text and over the date ‘December 1827’ in both volumes. Italian.

13. f. 36v. Sonnet (‘Genova bella, a cui l’altiera voce …’) Transcription in the same hand as the preceding sonnet, again over the initials A. H. H. and dated ‘Rome 1828’. Published in Poems (1830) and in Remains over the date ‘December 1827’ and with a considerable number of variants in the text in both volumes. Italian.

14. f. 37. Sonnet ‘Vezzoso fior, che sull’ombroso colle …’ Transcription in the same hand as the preceding sonnets but with no attribution and over the words ‘Rome 1828’. Published in Poems (1830) with the date 1827. Italian. Above the sonnet also in the same hand are some short notes in Italian on Napoleon with no attribution and no date.

15. ff. 38-39. Lyric in the Petrarchan manner (‘Ne il di, ne l’anno tacevo, ne il loco …’) . Transcribed in an unknown hand on paper watermarked ‘1830’. No attribution is given to it but it is probably by Arthur Hallam. Unpublished? Italian.

16. ff. 40-40v. A translation into English of the preceding lyric with an opening line ‘The day, the year, the place I will not hide …’ Autograph; n.d.

17. f. 41. Draft of part of the preceding translation. Autograph; n.d.

18. f. 41v. Untitled lyric in two stanzas addressed to a tree (‘Old tree, thou art not the same…’). Autograph but see his letter to W. H. Brookfield, 13 February 1832 where he indicates this verse was sent him by Sir John Bowring. (Kolb p. 526).

19. f. 42. A short piece of prose about the Palazzo Pitti, Florence, and Italian painters. Autograph; n.d. Unpublished.

20. ff. 43-44v. Untitled ode to Italy (‘Alas, for Italy! Who was so blest …’) in blank verse and in English. In an unknown hand, ascribed on f.45v to Arthur Hallam, on paper watermarked ‘1821’. Unpublished.

21. ff. 45-45v. Lyric entitled ‘Stanzas written at Caudebec in Normandy May 1829’ (‘When life is crazy in my limbs …’) Transcription in an unknown hand over the initials A. H. H. Published in Poems (1830) and in Remains with very slight variants in the text over the date June 1829 in both volumes.

22. f. 46. Sonnet written in the Pass of Glencoe, July 1829 (‘What tyrant chance hath massed in disarray…’). Transcription, over the initials A. H. H., in the same hand as the preceding sonnet. Published in Poems (1830).

23. f. 46v. Sonnet written at Edinburgh, June 1829 (‘Even thus methinks a city reared should be …’). Transcription, over the initials A. H. H., in the same hand as the preceding sonnet. Published in Poems (1830).

24. f. 47. Lyric in six stanzas headed ‘From Schiller’ (‘To yonder vale, where shepherds dwell …’). Autograph; n.d. Published in Poems (1830) and in Remains with some variants in the text and over the date 1 September 1829. The text in both volumes indicates that it was written at Malvern.

25. ff. 47v-48. Lyric in eight stanzas headed ‘From Schiller’ (‘’Take ye the world!’ From his imperial height …’) Autograph; n.d. Published in Poems (1830) over the date September 1829 and with slight variants in the text.

26. ff. 49-51. Verses (‘Already in thy breast has childish thought…’) addressed to his sister, Eleanor, dated 3 August 1831 and inscribed on an end-paper in a copy of Wordsworth’s selected poems, published in that year. Autograph.Xerox copy. Hallam had presented the volume to his sister as a gift.

27. ff. 52-53. Untitled lines in blank verse (‘’Tis done – the work is finished – that last touch …’). Transcription in an unknown hand over the initials A. H. H. and the date 1832. Published in Remains (1834) with the title ‘Lines spoken in the character of Pygmalion’.

28. f. 54. Untitled lines addressed to a nightingale (‘Oh gentle nightingale whose woodland home …’). Transcription in an unknown hand with the rubric ‘Written by Arthur in the Album of Mrs Anstice March 1833’. Published with variants in the text in The Writings of Arthur Hallam ed. T.H. Vail Motter (1943), though Motter used as his source not this transcript but one in the commonplace book of Hallam’s friend John Moore Heath, now in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.

29. ff. 55-55v. Untitled elegiac lines on the death of Arthur Hallam by his friend Henry Alford (‘But one there was that left me …’). Transcription in an unknown hand; n.d. This was published by Alford as part of ‘Lesson V’ in his The School of the Heart and Other Poems, 1835.

30. f. 56. Untitled lines on Arthur Hallam by his maternal uncle Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6^th Bart., (b.1778, d.1853), (‘O Thou! Whose glorious course too soon was run …’) Transcription in the preceding hand; n.d.

31. ff. 57-57v. Five stanzas headed ‘Lines by A. T.’ (‘Fair ship, that from Italian shore…’); dated December 1833. Watermark 1833. Transcription in an unknown hand of an early draft of one of Alfred Tennyson’s poems, later to be gathered together to form his elegy In Memoriam A. H. H., published in 1850. Henry Hallam was in touch with Tennyson twice in December 1833 concerning arrangements for Arthur’s funeral. This was to become Section 9 of the published elegy, a section which Tennyson told James Knowles was ‘the first written’. There are some slight differences between the published version and this transcript. There are points of similarity between this transcript and that made by John Moore Heath in his commonplace book in the Fitzwilliam Museum and also with the earliest autograph manuscript (Trinity College Notebook 17), but there are some unique readings here, as in the following three manuscripts.

32. ff. 58-59. Eight stanzas headed ‘Lines written on the return of Christmas 1833 – A. T.’ (‘With trembling fingers did we weave …’) Transcription as above. Also compare Heath’s book and the Trinity notebook. This was to become Section 30 of In Memoriam A. H. H.

33. ff. 60-61v. Eleven stanzas untitled but over the initials A. T. and dated 1835 (‘This truth came home with bier and pall …’). These were to constitute lines 1-4, 49-52, 57-76, and 97-108 of Section 85 of the published In Memoriam A.H.H. together with a stanza (present in all the main manuscripts) not published.

34. f. 62. Five stanzas, untitled, (‘Thou comest, much wept for, such a breeze …’) which were to constitute Section 17 of the published In Memoriam A. H. H. Transcribed in a hand different from that in the preceding folios; n.d. Watermarked 1834.

35. f. 62v. Five stanzas, untitled, (‘’Tis well – ‘tis something …’) which were to be Section 18 of the published poem. Over the name Alfred Tennyson. Transcribed in the same hand as the preceding; n.d. Watermarked 1834.

36. f. 63. Sonnet (headed Sonnet 1^st) on the death of Arthur Hallam: ‘When grief is with us, let us not despair …’, unattributed but by Septimus Tennyson (b.1815; d. 1866); n.d. Watermarked 1834. Transcribed in the same hand as the preceding. Unpublished.

37. f. 63v. Sonnet (headed Sonnet 2^nd) on the death of Arthur Hallam: ‘I love the quiet spirit-soothing eve …’, over the name Septimus Tennyson; n.d. Watermarked 1834. Unpublished. Transcribed as in the preceding.

38. f. 64. Untitled lines headed ‘Verses by Septimus Tennyson’ (‘There were two hearts, beat for themselves alone …’); n.d. Unpublished. Transcribed in an unknown hand.

39. ff. 65-65v. Four stanzas headed ‘Lines by CT’ and dated December 1833 (‘He comes, he comes – but not alive …’). These lines are by Tennyson’s elder brother Charles Tennyson, later Turner (b.1808; d.1879). Here he is adopting the same metrical form as that used by Alfred Tennyson in his In Memoriam A. H. H. Transcribed in an unknown hand on mourning paper. Unpublished.

40. ff. 66-67v. Five stanzas, untitled and with the initials ‘E. T.’ subscribed and on f. 69v; n.d. Watermarked 1834. These lines are by Tennyson’s sister, Emily Tennyson, later Jesse (b.1811, d.1887), who became formally engaged to Arthur Hallam in 1832. Transcribed in an unknown hand.

41. ff. 68-69. A small cut-out piece of paper in the form of a heart, contained in a small folded sheet. This was kept by the family with Arthur’s papers.

42. f. 70. A transcript, in an unknown hand, of part of the memorial inscription in St Andrew’s Church, Clevedon, to Arthur Hallam. Slight divergence from the tablet’s wording. Mourning paper, watermarked 1835.

43. ff. 71-71v. Draft of a six-stanza poem, untitled and undated, on Wellington’s victory over Napoleon (‘O who can tell in rhyme or prose….’). Author and hand unknown. This was among Arthur Hallam’s papers.

44. ff. 72-72v. Charles Wolfe’s ‘On the burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’. Unsigned and undated copy. This was also among Arthur Hallam’s papers.

45. f. 73. Ten lines of verse in rhyming couplets headed ‘The end of some verses on the course of two mountain streams, by Mrs Anstice’; n.d. Hand unknown.

46. ff. 74-74v. Lines ‘I lay upon the shore of sleep / And darkness met my dreamless gaze’. Initialled ‘M. E’. Mary Elton?; n.d.

47. ff. 75-76. A journal entry made by Eleanor Hallam; dated 31 August 1834, Henry Fitzmaurice Hallam’s tenth birthday, recollecting his birthday the year before. Autograph.

48. ff. 77-77v. Two pencil drawings of women, half-length, and one of a man, half-length, together with three sketched faces. The name ‘Ellen’ written in ink on a protecting sheet (f. 78); n.d.

49. ff. 79-80v. Letter to Eleanor Hallam from Emily Tennyson in response to Eleanor’s having sent her a book of sermons; Somersby, 5 August n.y. Watermark 1835.

50. ff. 81-87. Verses sent to Eleanor Hallam by Henriette Bourgeard, the first (‘Adieu fortune, amis, monde trompeur adieu …’), initialled ‘HB’. Followed (f. 82) by ‘L’Etrangère’ (‘Vers la fin d’un beau jour …’), initialled ‘HB’; fragment (f. 83) signed Henriette Bourgeard, dated 3 August 1831; poem (f. 84) addressed ‘To Ellen from Henriette Bourgeard’, dated 3 August 1833 and lines (ff. 84v-85) headed ‘Conseils d’une mère a sa fille’ and (ff. 86-87) lines similarly addressed and dated. French.

51. f. 88. A transcript of the memorial lines inscribed on Eleanor Hallam’s tomb at Clevedon; n.d. She died on 15 June 1837.

Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Poetry ENGLISH: Poems by Arthur Henry Hallam: 1828-1833: Partly Ital.: Partly autograph.

includes:

• ff. 1-3v Henry Hallam, historian: Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Letters to his father, H. Hallam from Arthur Henry Hallam: circa 1821, 1827.
• ff. 4-32 Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Elizabeth Hallam, sister of Henry Hallam: Letters to Elizabeth Hallam from Arthur Henry Hallam: 1825-1833, n.d.
• ff. 33-34v Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: William Bodham Donne, Examiner of Plays: Letter to William Bodham Donne from Arthur Henry Hallam: 1832: Copy.
• ff. 36-54 Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Poems by Arthur Henry Hallam: circa 1828-circa 1832: Partly Italian: Partly autograph.
• ff. 55 - 55v Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury: Memorial poem by Henry Alford addressed to Arthur Henry Hallam: 1833: Copy.
• f. 56 Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Sir Charles Abraham Elton, 6th Baronet: Memorial poem by Sir Charles Abraham Elton addressed to his nephew, A. H. Hallam: 1833: Copy.
• ff. 57-62v Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson; Poet Laureate: Early drafts of parts of In Memoriam by Alfred Tennyson: circa 1834: Copies.
• ff. 57-67v Tennyson family: Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Poetry ENGLISH: Memorial poems addressed to A. H. Hallam by four members of the Tennyson family: 1833-1835, n.d.: Copies.
• ff. 63-64 Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Septimus Tennyson: Memorial poems by Septimus Tennyson addressed to Arthur Henry Hallam: circa 1834: Copies.
• ff. 65-65v Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Charles Tennyson Turner, elder brother of Alfred Tennyson: Memorial lines by Charles Tennyson Turner addressed to Arthur Henry Hallam: circa 1834: Copy.
• ff. 66-67v Arthur Henry Hallam, poet; d.1833: Emily Tennyson Jesse, fiancée of A H Hallam: Memorial verses by Emily Tennyson Jesse addressed to Arthur Henry Hallam: circa 1834: Copy.
• ff. 75-78 Eleanor Hallam, sister of A H Hallam: Drawings and loose journal entry by Eleanor Hallam: 1834, n.d.
• ff. 79-80v Emily Tennyson Jesse, fiancée of A H Hallam: Eleanor Hallam, sister of A H Hallam: Letter to Eleanor Hallam from Emily Tennyson Jesse: circa 1835.
• ff. 81-87 Eleanor Hallam, sister of A H Hallam: Henriette Bourgeard: Letters to Eleanor Hallam from Henriette Bourgeard: 1831-1833: French.