BIB_ID
118220
Accession number
MA 215.27
Creator
Taylor, John, 1781-1864.
Display Date
1818 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 23
Notes
Letter is in an unknown hand and titled "Extract of a letter to Sir J.M."
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
Outlining Keats's early life, sending a copy of "Endymion" and saying Mr. Gifford's attack will not succeed. Noting: "if he lives, Keats will be the brightest Ornament of the Age."
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