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Copy of the inscription on John Keats's gravestone : autograph manuscript notes, [1823].

BIB_ID
283970
Accession number
MA 215.21
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
[1823].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 8.7 cm
Notes
Dating: Dated 24 February 1821 by Woodhouse. However, the inscription is penciled on the verso of a fragment of a printed document "Extracts From the Report of the committee of the House of Commons, presented in July, 1823."
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
Being a penciled copy of the inscription on John Keats's grave in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse.