ABSTRACT
Fitzgerald used often to stay in Great Coram Street (Jorum Street, Thackeray called it) and in Young Street. The novelist loved to have him in the house, for he was a delightful companion; the only drawback being they talked so much of books and poems. Alfred Tennyson and Thackeray formed a complete mutual admiration society d deux. The poet wrote of the novelist as a ‘lovable man’; and he, in his turn, addressed his letters to ‘My dear old Alfred.’ The friendship, which commenced at the University, was only broken by Thackeray’s death. The profound admiration of Thackeray has always been a tradition in the late Poet Laureate’s family. Not long ago the present Lord Tennyson remarked to a friend that ‘he always regarded Thackeray as the head of English literature of the Victorian Era.’.
