BIB_ID
104646
Accession number
MA 214.1
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
Thursday morning [1818 Feb. 5].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
Added to this collection of letters in December 1935 from a volume including Keats's poem "Cap and Bells."
Dated "1816" in an unknown hand, but dated to 5 February 1818 by Maurice Buxton Forman.
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.
Signed "Yours like a Pyramid, John Keats."
Dated "1816" in an unknown hand, but dated to 5 February 1818 by Maurice Buxton Forman.
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.
Signed "Yours like a Pyramid, John Keats."
Provenance
Sale (May 1902); sale (London, December 1906); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
Discussing Reynolds' ill health. Thanking Haydon for a letter from Devonshire, hoping to visit one day, and mentioning that he has a friend who has seen Wordsworth's House. Noting "I have finished my second Book" (Endymion).
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