BIB_ID
81000
Accession number
MA 215.45
Creator
Bailey, Benjamin, 1791-1853.
Display Date
1821 May 8.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (3 p., with address) ; 23.2 cm
Notes
Address panel with seal and addressed to " J. Taylor Esqre."
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.
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
Enclosing (not present) letters written by John Keats to Bailey and an account of his conversation with Lockhart, both to be used in Taylor's biography. Mentioning that Keats wrote the third book of Endymion while visiting him at Oxford, and asking that his letters be returned when Taylor is finished.
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