BIB_ID
104645
Accession number
MA 213.1
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
Friday [1818 Jan. 30].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.4 cm
Notes
Added to this collection of letters in December 1935 from "MSS by and relating to Keats."
Address panel with seal and postmarks ("7 o'Clock / JA 30 / 1818 NJ" and "TwoPy Post / Unpaid / SO Hampstead") and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 91 New Bond Street."
Dating and localization from postmark.
Part of a collection of six autograph letters of John Keats (MA 213.1-3, MA 214.1-2, and MA 791). See collection-level record for more information.
Watermark: 1814.
Address panel with seal and postmarks ("7 o'Clock / JA 30 / 1818 NJ" and "TwoPy Post / Unpaid / SO Hampstead") and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 91 New Bond Street."
Dating and localization from postmark.
Part of a collection of six autograph letters of John Keats (MA 213.1-3, MA 214.1-2, and MA 791). See collection-level record for more information.
Watermark: 1814.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Giving five revised lines of Endymion, beginning "Wherein lies Happiness? In that which becks" (Endymion, Book I, ll. 777-781). Discussing his work, stating "I assure you that when I wrote it, it was a regular stepping of the Imagination towards a Truth," and saying of the argument "it set before me at once the gradations of Happiness even like a kind of Pleasure Thermometer, and is my first Step towards the chief Attempt in the Drama, the playing of different Natures with Joy and Sorrow."
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