BIB_ID
128699
Accession number
MA 215.39
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1820 July 27.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p, with address.) ; 23 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to "J. Taylor Esqre / 93 Fleet Street."
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
Discussing John Keats's poetry and character, noting "he has good dispositions and noble qualities of heart; but ... he has not kept the best society for one of his character and constitution," and "many of his moral principles are consequently loose."
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