BIB_ID
298818
Accession number
MA 215.1-105
Display Date
ca. 1814-1828.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 v. (106 items), bound : ill. (ports.) ; 29.1 cm
Notes
Stillinger notes that "The contents of the scrapbook, which in earlier times probably were loosely inserted rather than fixed in place (and before that were simply a collection of discrete papers), have been reordered at least twice in the twentieth century," once in the 1920s and once between the early 1930s and the start of World War II. He also notes that "Woodhouse almost certainly had nothing to do with any of these recoverable arrangements, and since there is no sign of his hand in the scrapbook itself (apart from its contents), it is quite possible that the collection was first organized and put together as a volume after his death."--Cf. Stillinger, p. xv.
Provenance
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 collection of 102 letters, documents, and transcripts relating to the English poet John Keats (numbered MA 215.1-101 and MA 215.9a), including autograph copies of three poems.
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