Note 10 — TENNYSON’S LIFE AND POETRY.
Reading edition
Edward Fitzgerald, in a letter written soon after Charles Turner’s death (April 25, 1879), says: “Tennyson’s elder, not eldest, brother is dead; and I was writing only yesterday to persuade Spedding to insist on Macmillan publishing a complete edition of Charles’ Sonnets: graceful, tender, beautiful, and quite original little things.”—Letters and Literary Remains, vol. i., p. 437.