Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1913 — Great Poet Not Methodical. [ARTICLE]

Great Poet Not Methodical.

Tennyson, like Mrs. Browning, was careless regarding hlB manuscripts. Some weeks after leaving bis lodgings In Mornington alace, Hampstead, he wrot< from Bcncburch, telling Coventry Patmore that he could not find his "book of elegies—a lon*, butcher-ledger like book,” and asked him to make Inquiries. Patmore went to Mornipgton place and, being allowed .to feearcb the poet’s old rooms, found the bdok In a closet where Tennyson had kept his tea and bread and butter. It was the unpublished manu> script of "In Memoriam.”