Ashley MS 4870

Letter from John Keats to his sister Frances Mary (Fanny) Keats, describing the passing scene as viewed from his sickroom window; [8 Feb. 1820]. ff. 1-2. Ashley Library Catalogue, iii, pp. 14-15. Also included are:

1. Letter from Fanny Keats to Maria Dilke, concerning the honesty of her brother George; after [1820?]. ff. 3, 3b.

2. Letter (in the hand of Belle da Costa Greene) from J. P. Morgan to T. J. Wise, sending a lock of John Keats' hair, and a photograph (ff. xiii, xiv) of the letter from Joseph Severn to John Taylor (21 Jan. 1825) under cover of which the lock was sent from Rome to England; 16 June 1920. Signed. f. xii.

3. Inserted in the front doublure is the lock of Keats' hair mentioned above, and in the end doublure a lock of the hair of Fanny Brawne.

Quarto; ff. xiv+3.

Frances Brawne, fiancée of John Keats: Lock of hair: n.d.

John Keats, poet: Lock of hair: 1821.

includes:

• f. xii John Pierpont Morgan, banker: Belle da Costa Greene, Director of the Pierpont Morgan Library, New York: Thomas James Wise, book collector: Letter to Thomas James Wise from John Pierpont Morgan, in the hand of Belle da Costa Greene: 1920.
• ff. xiii, xiv Joseph Severn, painter: John Taylor, publisher: Letter to John Taylor from Joseph Severn: 1825: Photograph.
• ff. 1-2b John Keats, poet: Frances Mary Keats, afterwards Llanos; sister of the poet: Letter to Frances Mary Keats from John Keats: [1820].
• ff. 3, 3b Frances Mary Keats, afterwards Llanos; sister of the poet: Maria Dover Dilke, wife of Charles Wentworth Dilke: Letter to Maria Dover Dilke from Frances Mary Keats: [aft. 1820?].