Record ID:
127446
Accession number:
MA 215.50
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 23.1 cm
Notes:
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "Mr. Taylor / Taylor & Hessey / Booksellers / Fleet Street / London."
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.
Summary:
Enlisting Taylor's assistance in advertising a friend as a gentleman's companion. Reporting that he expects to return from his travels by Saturday, and thanking him for the loan of a coat. Remembering himself to Hessey and John Keats, and asking whether Taylor has received Hilton's sketch of Keats, noting that he would like to see it.
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.
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