ABSTRACT
Published 1873, Imperial Library Edition. T. had sent it to Knowles prior to 18 Dec. 1872 (Letters iii); T. is described as having just written’ it, 25 Dec. 1872 (Mem. ii 119). Cp. To the Queen (p. 485). Knowles hoped to be allowed to publish it in the Contemporary Review, New Year 1873. ‘After considering the idea of letting it appear first in the Contemporary, T. wrote to Knowles from Farringford just before Christmas that there would then be no time for the Queen to see it first, and that he preferred to let it find its own way “silently among the people”’ (P. Metcalf, James Knowles, 1980, p. 259; Letters iii).
