Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1902 — Why Tennyson Wrote Na Letters. [ARTICLE]

Why Tennyson Wrote Na Letters.

Tennyson once told Sir Henry Taylor that he thanked God Almighty with his whole heart and soul that he knew nothing and that the world knew nothing of Shakespeare but his writings and that he knew nothing of Jane Austen and that there were no letters preserved either jof Shakespeare or at Jane Austen; that they, in fact, had not been “ripped open, like pigs.**