BIB_ID
129079
Accession number
MA 215.35
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1818 May 20.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (4 p., with address) ; 22.6 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks, and addressed to "J. 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
Regarding John Keats and his review of "Endymion." Noting that he has "said bold things" and wishing that Keats's critics would respond in print, so as to give Bailey an opportunity to renew his praises. Discussing the fourth book of "Endymion," and talking about his own work.
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