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Autograph letter signed : Carlisle, to John Taylor, 1818 Aug. 29.

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.
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.