Record ID:
105095
Accession number:
MA 215.99
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.3 cm
Notes:
Stillinger (1985, p. 567-568) dates the composition of the poem to before 17 August 1817. The present manuscript is dated 1817 by Woodhouse, but this may refer to date of composition and not necessarily to the date this copy was made.
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.
Summary:
A fair copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, dated "Keats. 1817."
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.
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