Found 8 collections related to Keats, John, 1795-1821

· To "Miss Nellie," i.e., Helena Maria Sickert [later Swanwick], suffragist : [circa 23 Jan 1886] : (MISC 0682) : 1 page (double sheet) : from 16. Tite Street. Chelsea. S.W. (embossed stationery) : body reads in full, "Is it in accordance with the right principles of poetical economy to sell a poet's love letters?" Enclosing a clipping of the first publication of Wilde's poem, "On the Recent Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters," from The Dramatic Review, volume II, number 52, January 23, 1886, page 249. The letter and the clipping were formerly laid in to H. Buxton Forman's vellum-bound copy of Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne (1878), which contains an autograph letter from Keats to Brawne. less

To Lady Blessington, writer and literary hostess : 2 autograph letters signed : -- 29 Dec 1837 : (MISC 0994) : thanking her for Christmas presents, with family news and flattery on her work in Gems of Beauty. -- 16 Jun 1840 (MISC 3535) : sending his poem "The Usher" [no longer enclosed] for publication in one of her journals. less

William Bell Scott, Scottish poet and painter. · Holograph "Introductory Memoir" to his edition of The Poetical Works of John Keats : [ca. 1873] : (S'ANA 0055) : 23 pages (23 single sheets) : [no place] : written chiefly on rectos, with notes and additions on a few of the versos; begins, "There is no one of the poets who lived at the beginning of this century, -- the greatest era of lyrical and narrative poetry in England, as the Elizabethan age was of dramatic -- of whom we still find it so difficult to speak without bias or prejudice, for or against, as Keats ...". less

Joseph Severn, English painter. · To Charles Armitage Brown, writer : 6 letters : -- 1 autograph letter signed : 19 Sep 1821 : (S'ANA 0058) : 4 pages (double sheet made folio size by pasting two sheets together) : from Rome : begins, "I have got both your letters - the last 21 Aug.t came 19th instant ..."; including, "Why my dear Brown, what sad affair is this? I know not what to say in it - except this - that you are the only one to write Keats's memoir ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 26 Oct 1822 : (S'ANA 0059) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Rome : begins, "Owing to my journey - and other unsettling [Bores?] - I have only just got your letter ..."; including, "I am just about putting up the grave stone to our Keats ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 21 Jan 1823 : (S'ANA 0060) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Rome : begins, "I have just returned from the funeral of poor Shelley ..." -- 1 autograph letter signed : 27 Sep 1824 : (S'ANA 0061) : 3 ¹/₃ pages (double sheet) : from Lavinia : begins, "West is a hollow 'impfiddle' with never a string to his bow ..."; crosswritten on page 1. -- 1 autograph letter signed : 13 Jul 1836 : (S'ANA 0062) : 4 pages (double sheet) : from Rome : begins, "'Tis plain that the further we get apart, the nearer we draw together ..."; crosswritten on page 1. -- 1 autograph letter [signed] : 21 Aug 1838 : (S'ANA 0061) : 3 ¹/₄ pages (double sheet) : from 19 Brook St. : begins, "Such a lot of things, but above all the love of 'filthy luck' for I am beginning my 5th peiture here - have prevented me writing to you as I wanted ..."; signature cut away, causing near-complete loss of postscript on p. 4. less

Mary Cowden Clarke, English literary scholar and writer. · Holograph essay signed, in the form of a letter to the Editor of "The Illustrated London News" : 7 Nov 1895 : (S'ANA 0010) : 10 leaves, stitched together at top left corner : an article on John Keats, recalling her personal encounters with Keats at the home of her father, Vincent Novello, when Shelley was one of the company; also discussing Keats's poetry. less