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On some skulls in Beauley Abbey, near Inverness : manuscript fair copy in the autograph of Charles Brown, undated [ca. 1818 Aug. 8 or later] / by John Keats and Charles Armitage Brown.

BIB_ID
104982
Accession number
MA 215.82
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1818 Aug. 8 or later] /
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.7 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.
These lines were composed by John Keats and Charles Brown after visiting Beauley Priory on 8 August 1818.--Cf. Andrew Motion, Keats (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997) p. 296.
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 Charles Brown.