BIB_ID
128700
Accession number
MA 215.41
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1821 Feb. 12.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 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
Inquiring after John Keats, hoping his health is recovered. Discussing the development of his poetry, praising Hyperion as "the best in the volume." Discussing other publications, and asking that Taylor send him some books.
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