BIB_ID
210007
Accession number
MA 215.49
Creator
Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842.
Display Date
1820 Sept. [i.e., Oct.] 5.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.5 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks and addressed "To / Messrs Taylor & Hessey / No 93 Fleet Street / London." This address has been canceled and the letter has been readdressed to "Mr John Taylor / Mesds Taylor & Hunt / Leicester."
On page 3 is an autograph note signed by J.A. Hessey (initials) dated 6 October, 1820, forwarding the letter to Taylor.
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.
On page 3 is an autograph note signed by J.A. Hessey (initials) dated 6 October, 1820, forwarding the letter to Taylor.
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
Reporting that Keats and Severn arrived in Portsmouth "after having been tossed about in the Channel for ten days," noting that Keats's health was better than he expected. Describing Keats as having "the bustling wit of a man in saucy health." Mentioning that they set sail from Portsmouth on Friday afternoon [29 Sept.], with a fair wind. With a note from J. A. Hessey forwarding the letter to Taylor in Leicester.
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