BIB_ID
128702
Accession number
MA 215.43
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1821 Mar. 26.
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Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.5 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
Lamenting the death of John Keats, but noting that "it is vain & useless to indulge in unavailing sorrow" and mentioning that J. H. Reynolds told him Keats "attributed his approaching death to the poisonous pen of Lockhart." Asking Taylor to destroy or return Bailey's letters to Keats, if possible.
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