Emery County Progress | 1904-09-03 | Page 4 | Sought to Convert Poet

SOUGHT TO CONVERT POET brother of tennyson would have had him join the world might have lost some ot ts choicest poetry had a certain spir had his way it was freder ick tennyson who was so impressed by spirit rapping that bis head had become as much turned as the table whose used to delight him he desired his brother the poet laur aate to give up everything to kropa gate spiritualism frederick told the old story of an un musical girl made to play music by invisible influence and of a stout old gentleman who was suddenly picked up and whizzed gh the thickness of solid walls all in a moment to be found in a court ard of a house a mile and a halt distant whose gates were closed and locked the poet did believe ahert was something in spiritualism there 1 a remarkable letter of ais to queen victoria on the subject but he could nc swallow the story of the tat old gentleman s travels so he contented himself with poetry and let spiritual is alone