Record ID:
299097
Accession number:
MA 215.23
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description:
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.9 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.
Summary:
Being the original title page to Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W². With an autograph note on the verso referring to Keats's verses composed for the tune "Julia to the Wood Robin" (first line: "Stay, ruby-breasted warbler, stay").
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.
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