Text: Alfred Lord Tennyson, “Letter to the Editor,” The Spectator (London, UK), vol. XXVI, whole no. 1282, p. 184, col. 1

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Letters to the Editor.

20th January 1853.

SIR — I have just seen the Supplement to your paper of the 1st of January, and the letter of your correspondent who signs himself “G. D. B.” I am not the author of the lines which he attributes to me; and I have no doubt that both the poems quoted in your correspondent's communication are by the same author, Edgar Poe. One is, in fact, but a variety of the other.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A. TENNYSON.