BIB_ID
129077
Accession number
MA 215.33
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1818 Feb. 22.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "John Taylor Esqre / 91 New Bond Street / London."
Enclosing an account of his interview with J. G. Lockhart (MA 215.32).
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.
Enclosing an account of his interview with J. G. Lockhart (MA 215.32).
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 his work at length. Describing a "most eccentric letter from Coleridge," and mentioning Hazlitt. Regretting that Taylor is "disappointed with [Keats's] 2nd book." [Endymion?], noting that he thinks "very highly of it."
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