ABSTRACT

Published 1889, introducing The Progress of Spring (I 516). Written spring 1888 (l. 13n, and l. 45), it is not in the Virginia trial edition of 1889. H.T. says: ‘Mary Boyle was an aunt of my wife’s (Audrey Tennyson, née Boyle)’; T. first met her in 1882 (Mem. ii 294).