BIB_ID
299097
Accession number
MA 215.23
Creator
Woodhouse, Richard, Jr., 1788-1834.
Display Date
1818 Nov.
Credit line
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.
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Being the original title page to Woodhouse's compilation of transcripts of John Keats's unpublished poetry, which is now at Harvard and generally cited as W².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").
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