BIB_ID
104648
Accession number
MA 214.2
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1820 Aug. 14].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 18.5 cm
Notes
Added to this collection of letters in December 1935 from a volume including Keats's "Cap and Bells."
Address panel with seal and postmarks (August 14, 1820 and "TwoPy Post / Unpaid / SO Hampstead") and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / Taylor & Hessey / Booksellers Fleet Street."
Dating 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.
This letter enclosed "scrap of paper" on which Keats has written his will. Taylor attached this document to the letter which he attested, signed, and dated 22 Sept. 1820.
Written from Wentworth Place.
Address panel with seal and postmarks (August 14, 1820 and "TwoPy Post / Unpaid / SO Hampstead") and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / Taylor & Hessey / Booksellers Fleet Street."
Dating 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.
This letter enclosed "scrap of paper" on which Keats has written his will. Taylor attached this document to the letter which he attested, signed, and dated 22 Sept. 1820.
Written from Wentworth Place.
Provenance
Sale (May 1902); sale (London, December 1906); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
Referring to his journey to Italy. With a postscript discussing a lost copy of Homer, which was lent to Keats by Haydon.
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