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- ↑ "In 1841 Mr. Lushington was enabled to gratify a long cherished wish, by forming the acquaintance of Mr. Alfred Tennyson, whose family became afterwards connected by marriage with his own. The dedication of 'The Princess' to Henry Lushington commemorates the cordial intimacy which followed. To the end of his life there was scarcely any companion whose society was so attractive to Mr. Lushington. . . . It will, I hope, not be a violation of confidence, to quote Mr. Tennyson's frequent remark, that of all the critics with whom he had discussed his own poems, Mr. Lushington was the most suggestive. His taste was, perhaps, in this instance, rendered more exquisite by his personal anxiety for the perfection and success of works which could scarcely have interested him more if they had been his own composition. If all Mr. Tennyson's writings had by some strange accident been destroyed, Henry Lushington's wonderful memory could, I believe, have reproduced the whole."—Memoir of Henry Lushington, by G. S. Venables (London, 1859), pp. 26, 27.
