BIB_ID
127449
Accession number
MA 215.64
Creator
Reynolds, John Hamilton, 1794-1852.
Display Date
1820 Sept. 21.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 24.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmark and addressed to "John Taylor Esq / 93 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.
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
Expressing his gratification at Keats's departure for a "better Lung-land," and hoping for his "refreshed health." Mentioning that his separation from "one or two heartless and demented people" will be beneficial. Referencing Fanny Brawne, noting that Keats's "absence from the poor idle Thing of woman-kind, to whom he has so unaccountably attached himself, will not be an ill thing." Also mentioning Woodhouse, Leigh Hunt, Fanny Brawne's family, Joseph Severn, and Dewint.
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