Salt Lake Telegram | 1926-12-16 | Page 9 | Tennyson Refused Xmas Verse Offer

Tennyson Ref Refused used sed Xmas Verse Offer LONDON Dec 1 16 AP- AP AP Christ Christ Christmas mas card poets are ate telling how Tennyson declined the largest offer ever eer made for tor such greetings When hen henhe he was poet laureate a n. firm of publishers publishers pub pub- lishers offered him 1000 gun guineas as for twelve sets of ot verse of eight elgh t lines each to appear under his name I Believing the otter offer incompatible with hi his position as a poet and especially as poet laureate laurente he declined de declined declined de- de I the proposal with thanks