Aldworth, Haslemere, Surrey, no date. One page, 7 x 4 1/4 in. (178 x 108 mm). Autograph letter, signed by Alfred, Lord Tennyson to an unnamed recipient. In full: "Sir I thank you much for your book which is all the more grateful to me as being in prose. I scarce can receive any volumes but those of verse-makers & who can live wholly on honey and treacle? Yours truly Tennyson." Creasing from old folds; black paper border around three edges; lacking integral leaf.