BIB_ID
128701
Accession number
MA 215.42
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1821 Feb. 16.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.8 cm
Notes
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
Concerning John Keats's declining health, referencing his probable death, and discussing his literary success: noting "his sanguine temper would have been rendered miserable by the excitements produced by successive disappointments" and fearing "he is not possessed with philosophic nor religious Resignation enough to have borne the slow ascent up the ladder of literary Fame." Asking to be informed of "any material change" in his health. Discussing books and the publication of a periodical.
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