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TENNYSON, Alfred, 1st Baron (1809-1892). Hands All Round. A National Song, with music arranged by C. Villiers Stanford, London, 1882, 355 x 260mm., contemporary limp cloth, including an AUTOGRAPH DEDICATION SIGNED on the title page to the Honble. Mrs Higginson, and autograph amendments to five lines of verse, adding at the foot 'This is the original song - altered at Mr Stanford's request who said 'Cosmopolite' & 'Conservative' could not be sung'; and nine letters by Hallam Tennyson to General Sir George Higginson, one by Miss Augusta Gordon (General Gordon's sister), a ticket and order of service for Tennyson's funeral and 4 other items (ephemera).
The song, with music originally by Emily Tennyson, was published for Queen Victoria's birthday on 15 March 1882. It is a drastic recasting of the convivial ode Hands All Round (1852), retaining only the first stanza with variant lines, from the original verses attacking Louis Napoleon (i.e. Napoleon III). The alterations to the original lines were deplored in the St James's Gazette, and the 1852 wording was reinstated for publication in 1885. Mrs. Higginson's husband, Commander of the Brigade of Guards, was the organiser of the General Gordon Boys Home, which Tennyson also supported. (14)
The song, with music originally by Emily Tennyson, was published for Queen Victoria's birthday on 15 March 1882. It is a drastic recasting of the convivial ode Hands All Round (1852), retaining only the first stanza with variant lines, from the original verses attacking Louis Napoleon (i.e. Napoleon III). The alterations to the original lines were deplored in the St James's Gazette, and the 1852 wording was reinstated for publication in 1885. Mrs. Higginson's husband, Commander of the Brigade of Guards, was the organiser of the General Gordon Boys Home, which Tennyson also supported. (14)