BIB_ID
119154
Accession number
MA 215.5
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
Friday [1820 June 30].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.9 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.
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
Concerning shared acquaintences, mentioning that he "had the honour of Pickling shrimps" with Miss Bosnor and "his Honor of Polesden." Discussing literary matters, referencing a Blackwood review of The Fancy, and wondering "where the d--ce could the Scotsman have purloined so much wit and humour from?" Noting Barry Cornwall's praise of the sonnet about "Lilies lying uneasily at rest."
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