BIB_ID
119160
Accession number
MA 215.12
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
1819 Aug. 31.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (5 p., with address) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed "To, / Jno Taylor Esqr" with "R.W." in lower left corner.
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 Keats's discussion of his "pride" in a letter, arguing that Keats is not referring to personal pride, but rather to "nothing more than literary Pride, -- that disposition which arises out of a Consciousness of superior & improving poetical Powers." Discussing Woodhouse's intention to lend Taylor £50 to lend to Keats. Referencing his intention to shun Charles Brown after his marriage to Abigail Donhaugh, noting "I shall not take notice of his Marriage -- I have not seen it in the papers, and don't mean to do so." Mentioning Hessey and Reynolds.
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