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Autograph letter signed : Hampstead, to John Taylor, [1820] Mar. 8.

BIB_ID
210430
Accession number
MA 215.46
Creator
Brown, Charles Armitage, 1786-1842.
Display Date
[1820] Mar. 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (2 p., with address) ; 18.7 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and postmarks, and addressed "To Mr. Taylor / No. 93 Fleet Street."
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 Keats's illness, and saying he will be unable to prepare his poems [Lamia] for the press for a long time. With a postscript reporting that Dr. Bree "has been here, and ... gives very favoruable hopes."