BIB_ID
132743
Accession number
MA 215.58
Creator
Mathew, George Felton, b. 1795.
Display Date
undated [ca. 1816 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (7 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
"Oh --, thou bright beam of joy" first line: Oh --, thou bright beam of joy.
"To a poetical friend" first line: O thou who delightest in fanciful song.
"To a young lady" first line: Thine eyes are bright, thy face is fair .
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.
"To a poetical friend" first line: O thou who delightest in fanciful song.
"To a young lady" first line: Thine eyes are bright, thy face is fair .
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
Manuscript copies of three poems ("To a poetical friend," "Oh --, thou bright beam of joy," and "To a young lady") by George Felton Mathew, with notes by Richard Woodhouse.
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