BIB_ID
105081
Accession number
MA 215.94
Creator
Keats, John, 1795-1821.
Display Date
[1817 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 22.4 cm
Notes
Dating: Woodhouse has dated "Think not of it, sweet one, so" "[about] 11 Nov. 1817," and "On the sea" "August 1817." He has noted "Champion" below "On the sea" (where the poem was first published 17 August 1817), and "Examiner" below "On seeing the Elgin marbles" and "To Hayden..." (where the poems were published on 9 March 1817). See also Stillinger (1978).
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.
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
Fair copies of "Think not of it, sweet one, so," "On the Sea," "On Seeing the Elgin Marbles," and "To Hayden, with a Sonnet Written on Seeing the Elgin Marbles" in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse. "On the sea" with penciled variants by Woodhouse.
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