BIB_ID
104886
Accession number
MA 215.69
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[ca. 1818 Mar. 25].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.6 cm
Notes
Part of a large collection, assembled by Richard Woodhouse, of letters and manuscripts relating to the English poet John Keats. Items in the collection have been described in individual catalog records; see collection-level record for MA 215 for more information.
The letter from Keats to Rice was actually written on 24 March 1818 and postmarked on 26 March.
Written by Keats on 23 or 24 March 1818 (see Stillinger 1978, p. 600). Woodhouse has dated the poem 25 March 1818, but this may refer to the date of Keats's composition and not necessarily to the date that Woodhouse copied the poem.
The letter from Keats to Rice was actually written on 24 March 1818 and postmarked on 26 March.
Written by Keats on 23 or 24 March 1818 (see Stillinger 1978, p. 600). Woodhouse has dated the poem 25 March 1818, but this may refer to the date of Keats's composition and not necessarily to the date that Woodhouse copied the poem.
Provenance
Part of a collection assembled by Richard Woodhouse; by descent in 1834 to the publisher John Taylor; by descent in 1864 to his relatives, descending finally to his niece by marriage, Mrs. George Taylor of Bakewell, Derbyshire; purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the London dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
A fair copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse. Dated 25 March 1818, and with a note by Woodhouse indicating that the verses were copied from a letter sent by Keats to James Rice on that day.
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