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Tennyson (Hallam, second Baron Tennyson, eldest son of Alfred Lord Tennyson, biographer and governor-general of Australia, 1852-1928) 7 Autograph Letters signed & 9 Autograph Postcards signed to Edward Comerford Casey, tutor to his third son Harold Courtenay Tennyson, 8pp. & 9 sides, 8vo & v.s., Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey & Farringford, Isle of Wight, 9th March 1906 - 21st December 1922, in his capacity as Harold's tutor, "I am sure that you and Harold will get on well together although sometimes he is difficult to manage. If you win his affections he will be tractable enough" and sending condolences on the death of Casey's father and quoting one of Alfred Lord Tennyson's poems, "He will not smile not speak to me"; and correspondence from and to the Tennyson family, including: from Lady Audrey Tennyson (1854-1916), including a letter signed to Casey on the death of Harold (1896-1916), Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Navy; killed in action when his ship HMS Torpedo Boat Destroyer Viking struck a mine in the English Channel, several letters from a young Harold giving vivid glimpses of life at the Royal naval School at Osborne and condolences on Casey's father's death, "I don't know what I should do if I lost my father, I think it would drive me mad", 2 letters from Casey to his mother, "Lord T. seems much pleased at Harold's taking to me", photographs, including: Alfred Lord Tennyson's bedroom at Aldworth, and others of Aldworth and the Haslemere area and Farringford, Freshwater area on the Isle of Wight etc., folds, v.s., v.d. (qty). ⁂ Edward Comerford Casey, eldest son of Rev George Edwards Comerford Casey; tutor to the Tennyson family; 2nd Lieutenant in The Wiltshire Regiment, 1915-1923.