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Autograph letter signed with initials : [London], to John Taylor, Friday [1818 Nov.].

BIB_ID
119153
Accession number
MA 215.4
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
Friday [1818 Nov.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Dating from Rollins.
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.
The sonnet referred to herein was sent to Keats by an unknown Teignmouth admirer, "P. Fenbank," under the date of November 8.--Cf. Rollins, p. 65, n. 1.
With seal and addressed to "Mr. Taylor / Fleet St."
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
Requesting a copy of Endymion "1/2 bound in plain brown calf with very loose hollow back & interleaved ... lettered merely "Endymion."" Also asking Taylor to procure for him a copy of the sonnet sent to Keats by an admirer to add to his collection of "Keatsiana".