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Hush, hush, tread softly, hush, hush, my dear : manuscript poem in autograph of Richard Woodhouse, undated [1818 or later].

BIB_ID
105055
Accession number
MA 215.87
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [1818 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
3 8-line stanzas.
Dating from Garrod and Stillinger (1978, p. 623).
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 manuscript copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, with edits by him.