BIB_ID
211920
Accession number
MA 215.54
Creator
Abbey, Richard, -1837.
Display Date
1821 Apr. 18.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p., with address) ; 25.1 cm
Notes
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.
Written from Pancrass Lane. Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "John Taylor Esqr / Fleet St / [in lower left corner] 93."
Written from Pancrass Lane. Address panel with trace of a seal and addressed to "John Taylor Esqr / Fleet St / [in lower left corner] 93."
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
Declining to interfere in the late Mr. Keats's affairs, noting that Keats withdrew himself from his control and "acted contrary to my advice."
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