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Cap and bells, or, The jealousies : a faery tale -- unfinished : autograph manuscript of stanzas 1-8, 17-44, 52-81, undated [1819 Nov.-Dec.].

BIB_ID
104866
Accession number
MA 214.5
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1819 Nov.-Dec.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (41 p.) ; 19.8 and 24.6 cm
Notes
According to previous cataloging, this item was added to this collection from a volume entitled "Cap and Bells" in November 1935.
Dating from previous cataloging.
Lacking title.
Part of a collection of autograph poems of John Keats. See collection-level record for more information.
Stanzas numbered by Keats.
The complete poem has 88 stanzas.
Written variously 2 p. to a sheet or 4 p. to a folded sheet (sheets all sized ca. 19.8 x 24.6 cm).
Inscriptions/Markings
Watermark: page 7-8. "C. Wilmott 1818".
Provenance
Sale (May 1902); sale (London, December 1906); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
A working draft of stanzas 1-8, 17-44, and 52-81 with numerous cancellations and revisions. The text being a satire of events of the day published under the nom de plume Lucy Vaughan Lloyd.