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Autograph letter signed : Carlisle, to John Taylor, 1818 Oct. 5.

BIB_ID
128685
Accession number
MA 215.37
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1818 Oct. 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 91 New Bond Street / London" and readdressed to ""Mr. James Taylor's / Market Place / Retford / Notts."
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 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.
Summary
Writing on behalf of Bishop Gleig, concerning some Greek translations. Discussing his desire to defend John Keats in the press, noting his article has been rejected by Blackwood's Magazine and that he has offered it to Constables Miscellany. Mentioning that he was introduced to Blackwood and noting that he told him that the attack on Keats in his magazine was "infamous."