BIB_ID
119155
Accession number
MA 215.6
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
[1819 Aug.].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 cm
Notes
Dating from Rollins; localization from previous cataloging.
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
Referencing Taylor's, Hessey's, and his own visits to the country. Concerning the copying of Keats's "Isabella," praising it and noting that he could "say it by heart with about 5 promptings." Discussing other literary matters and mentioning Hessey, Reynolds and one of Gray's letters.
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