BIB_ID
80120
Accession number
MA 215.80
Creator
Spencer, Aubrey George, 1795-1872.
Display Date
[1817 Nov. 1 or later].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
AGS was identified in 1951 by Mabel A.E. Steele as A. G. Spencer, who is identified by Garrod (p. lxxiii) and Stillinger (p. 754) as Aubrey George Spencer. Keats likely met Spencer through Benjamin Bailey.
Dated 8 October 1817 and 1 November 1817 by Woodhouse, though these dates possibly refer to the date of composition and not the date that this copy was made.
Formerly attributed to Keats.
N.B. In the facsimile reproduction, Stillinger's Table of Contents indicates that this item is on fol. 92 in the Woodhouse scrapbook; however, it is on fol. 73.
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.
Dated 8 October 1817 and 1 November 1817 by Woodhouse, though these dates possibly refer to the date of composition and not the date that this copy was made.
Formerly attributed to Keats.
N.B. In the facsimile reproduction, Stillinger's Table of Contents indicates that this item is on fol. 92 in the Woodhouse scrapbook; however, it is on fol. 73.
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
A manuscript copy of two stanzas in the autograph of Richard Woodhouse, followed by three stanzas in shorthand. Both identified as by "AGS."
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