BIB_ID
105078
Accession number
MA 214.4
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1816 June 29].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 13.8 cm
Notes
Added to this collection in December 1935 from a volume including Keats's poem "Cap and Bells."
Dating: In Tom Keats's copybook, this sonnet is headed "To Charles Wells on receiving a bunch of roses," and is dated "June 29, 1816."
Part of a collection of autograph poems of John Keats. See collection-level record for more information.
Dating: In Tom Keats's copybook, this sonnet is headed "To Charles Wells on receiving a bunch of roses," and is dated "June 29, 1816."
Part of a collection of autograph poems of John Keats. See collection-level record for more information.
Provenance
Sale (May 1902); sale (London, December 1906); purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1906.
Summary
A draft of the poem, with two revisions and differing slightly from the published version. See Garrod for variants.
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