BIB_ID
104932
Accession number
MA 214.10
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Published
1820 Sept.
Credit line
Acquired by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description
1 hair clipping.
Notes
Part of a collection of three locks of John Keats's hair (MA 214.8-10). Locks of hair have been cataloged individually; see collection-level record for more information.
ca. 110 mm
Provenance
Joseph Severn; by descent to Walter Severn.
Summary
A lock of John Keats's hair tied up with black string and accompanied by a sheet of paper (11.2 cm) with the following notes: "John Keats's hair cut off by Wm Haslam in Sept. 1820 just before Keats left England" and "This is my father's writing -- I found the small parcel among his papers after his death." The second note is dated 1881 and signed Walter Severn; the first note is presumably in Joseph Severn's hand.
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