BIB_ID
127448
Accession number
MA 215.63
Creator
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852.
Display Date
1820 July 4.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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.
Written from 50 Poland Street. Address panel with postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esq / Messrs Collett & Falkener / Bath."
Written from 50 Poland Street. Address panel with postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esq / Messrs Collett & Falkener / Bath."
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 the proposed cutting of his father's salary. Referencing John Keats's health, and mentioning criticism of Keats in the "damn'd Literary Gazette" and in Blackwood's Magazine.
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