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acquaintance admirable affectionate Alfred Tennyson auction autograph bear believe booksellers Boswell brother brought Carlyle catalogue Charles Charles Dickens Charles Lamb Coleridge collection collectors Dante Gabriel Rossetti dealer Dear Sir delight Dickens early edition England English Facsimile fly-leaf George Eliot give hand happy Harris Arnold Honor inscribed inscription interest issued James Boswell John Johnson Lady Lamb later LAURENCE STERNE letter written literary London look Lord Madam manuscript mind Miss Moxon National Portrait Gallery never Oliver Goldsmith original pleasure poem poet poetical Pope possession presentation copy printed printer Procter published Reynolds Richardson Robert Browning Robert Louis Stevenson Rossetti sent sheet signature sold Sterne Stevenson story tell Tennyson Thackeray THRALE tion title-page told translation Tristram verse volume Walter Savage Landor week wife wish word Wordsworth write wrote York young