BIB_ID
129176
Accession number
MA 215.40
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
Tuesday evening [1818 June 9].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p, with address.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed to "J. Taylor Esqre / 93 Fleet Street / London."
Dating and localization from postmarks and Rollins.
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.
Dating and localization from postmarks and Rollins.
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 criticisms of John Keats in the Oxford papers and mentioning his recent article on Keats. Referring to Bailey's work and to the likelihood of his ordination the following month by the Bishop of Carlisle.
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