BIB_ID
137566
Accession number
MA 213.3
Display Date
undated [1820 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 12.6 cm
Notes
Added to this collection of letters in December 1935 from "MSS by and related to Keats."
For a discussion of this note and similar one in the Harvard Keats collection, see Mabel A. E. Steele in Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 6, 1952, p. 121-125 with facsims.
Formerly believed to be Keats's last message to Fanny Brawne, but now believed to be a forgery, and perhaps in the hand of Joseph Severn.
Part of a collection of six autograph letters of John Keats (MA 213.1-3, MA 214.1-2, and MA 791). See collection-level record for more information.
With seal.
For a discussion of this note and similar one in the Harvard Keats collection, see Mabel A. E. Steele in Harvard Library Bulletin, vol. 6, 1952, p. 121-125 with facsims.
Formerly believed to be Keats's last message to Fanny Brawne, but now believed to be a forgery, and perhaps in the hand of Joseph Severn.
Part of a collection of six autograph letters of John Keats (MA 213.1-3, MA 214.1-2, and MA 791). See collection-level record for more information.
With seal.
Provenance
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan from the dealer Frank T. Sabin in 1909.
Summary
Refering to Keats's journey to Italy in 1820, reading: "The passport arrived before we started. I don't think I shall be long ill. God bless you -- farewell John Keats."
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