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Falling In With The Old Groaner

Laurence Lerner THE LETTERS OF ALFRED LORD TENNYSON: Vol II, 1851- 1870 edited by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr. Clarendon Press, PIO T ennyson hated writing letters.......

The Blooms Are Not Yet Buried

Frances Partridge CHARLESTON PAST AND PRESENT by Quentin Bell, Angelica Garnett, Henrietta Garnett and Richard Shone The Hoganh Press, £5.95 I must declare an interest in this......