BIB_ID
128684
Accession number
MA 215.36
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1818 Aug. 29.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 91 New Bond Street / London."
Discussing mutual acquaintances, describing his new post as a Curate, and mentioning the death of Tom Keats. Discussing at length the reception of John Keats's "Endymion" and describing a conversation with [J. G. Lockhart] while with the Bishop of Carlisle, which has convinced Bailey that "Endymion" will be "dreadfully cut up in the Edinburgh Magazine (Blackwood's)."
Written from Court Square.
Discussing mutual acquaintances, describing his new post as a Curate, and mentioning the death of Tom Keats. Discussing at length the reception of John Keats's "Endymion" and describing a conversation with [J. G. Lockhart] while with the Bishop of Carlisle, which has convinced Bailey that "Endymion" will be "dreadfully cut up in the Edinburgh Magazine (Blackwood's)."
Written from Court Square.
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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