BIB_ID
104971
Accession number
MA 215.81
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1818 July 18 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 20.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "To / Jno Taylor Esq."
Also known by the title "Lines written in the Highlands after a visit to Burns' country."
Dating: The poem was originally enclosed in a letter to Benjamin Bailey dated Inverness 18 July 1818.
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.
Also known by the title "Lines written in the Highlands after a visit to Burns' country."
Dating: The poem was originally enclosed in a letter to Benjamin Bailey dated Inverness 18 July 1818.
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.
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, and with his notes.
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