BIB_ID
118243
Accession number
MA 215.30
Display Date
1820 Sept. 19.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 18.2 cm
Notes
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.
Rollins notes "Brown is not listed as a banker in the Post Office London Directory for 1820 or the Royal Kalendar for 1820. Possibly he was associated with the Poultry bankers Frys and Chapman or the 25 Bucklersbury firm of Browne, Langhorne, and Braisford."--Cf. Rollins, p. 147, n. 1.
Written in the autograph of John Taylor.
Rollins notes "Brown is not listed as a banker in the Post Office London Directory for 1820 or the Royal Kalendar for 1820. Possibly he was associated with the Poultry bankers Frys and Chapman or the 25 Bucklersbury firm of Browne, Langhorne, and Braisford."--Cf. Rollins, p. 147, n. 1.
Written in the autograph of John Taylor.
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
Stating that Taylor & Hessey will honour the bills of John Keats at Naples to the extent of £150, asking that "those Bills should be negociated through the Medium of your House at Naples."
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