Meredith (George, novelist and poet) Autograph Postcard initialled "GM" to Sir Frederick Pollock, 1882, with an original poem unpublished until 1950 (2).

Meredith (George, novelist and poet, 1828-1909) Autograph Postcard initialled "GM" to Sir Frederick Pollock, 1 side, 122 x 75mm., 25th October 1882, with an original poem unpublished until 1950, "Vowed, by Time upon his dial!"; "Which full many a Tramp has laughed in" [first & last lines], postcard torn in two and repaired with tape; and a printer's proof of an article on Meredith by Sir John, v.s., v.d. (2).

⁂ A very personal poem by Meredith for Pollock, including the line "boar with shaft in flanks" referring to the Pollock crest and "Tramp" an allusion to the Sunday Tramps, a walking group started by Frederick Pollock and of which Meredith was an enthusiastic member. Originally unpublished in Meredith's lifetime until appearing in Sir John Pollock's autobiography Times Chariot, John Murray, 1950.

Pollock, Sir Frederick, third baronet (1845-1937), jurist & Sir Frederick John Pollock, fourth Baronet (1878-1963), historian, journalist and translator.