BIB_ID
129455
Accession number
MA 215.32
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1821 May 8].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 16.5 cm
Notes
Beginning "In the month of July, 1818."
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.
This account was enclosed in a letter from Benjamin Bailey to John Taylor dated 8 May 1821 (MA 215.33).
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.
This account was enclosed in a letter from Benjamin Bailey to John Taylor dated 8 May 1821 (MA 215.33).
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
Giving an account of Bailey's interview with Lockhart, in which the critic promised not to attack Keats. Possibly a draft of the article Bailey offered to Constable's Miscellany, which was rejected.
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