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John Stewart Blackie Bucketlist Item: Meeting Tennyson and Pressing Flowers From His Garden

John Stuart Blackie by Somerled Macdonald

“[On Tennyson]: [His] head Jovian, eye dark, pale face, black flowing locks, like a Spanish ship-captain or a captain of Italian brigands something not at all common and not the least English. We dined, talked, and smoked together, and got on admirably.” August 6, 1809 On this day, Victorian poet Alfred Lord Tennyson was born.…

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