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Draft of the "Advertisement" to John Keats's Lamia : autograph manuscript draft : [London], ca. 1820 June.

BIB_ID
119168
Accession number
MA 215.22
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
ca. 1820 June.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.4 cm
Notes
Dating and localization 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 "Advertisement" as printed may have been written by John Taylor. Rollins notes that it was disowned by Keats.--Cf. Rollins, p. 115, n. 1.
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
A draft of the "Advertisement" preceding John Keats's "Lamia." With many cancellations and revisions, and differing greatly from the printed version.