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The house of mourning written by Mr. Scott : manuscript poem in autograph of Richard Woodhouse, undated [ca. 1817 or later].

BIB_ID
299521
Accession number
MA 215.88
Display Date
undated [ca. 1817 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 25.2 cm
Notes
3 8-line stanzas.
Attributed to John Keats by Finney (1936) and Garrod (1958). This attribution is called into question by Stillinger (1978), who suggests the poem may have been composed by Richard Woodhouse.
Dating from Garrod.
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.
The first line referrs to John Scott's "The house of mourning: a poem, with some smaller pieces" (1817).
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
A manuscript copy of the poem in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, with edits by him and followed by a line in shorthand.