Tennyson and His Friends

To those who have contributed to this volume their memories of my father, criticisms of his work, or records of his friends, I owe a deep debt of gratitude. Three of the writers, Henry Butcher, Sir Alfred Lyall, and Graham Dakyns, have lately, to my great loss, passed away - into that fuller "light of friendship" - . "a clearer dayThan our poor twilight dawn on earth."