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KEATS, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Thomas and George Keats ("My Dear Brothers") in Teignmouth, Devon; Hampstead, [postmarked 30 January 1818]. 3 pages, 4to, 204 x 252mm. (9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.), address panel (page 4) in Keats's hand: "Mes...

Auction 17.05.1996
17.05.1996
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
79.500 $
Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 92

KEATS, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Thomas and George Keats ("My Dear Brothers") in Teignmouth, Devon; Hampstead, [postmarked 30 January 1818]. 3 pages, 4to, 204 x 252mm. (9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.), address panel (page 4) in Keats's hand: "Mes...

Auction 17.05.1996
17.05.1996
Schätzpreis
40.000 $ - 60.000 $
Zuschlagspreis:
79.500 $
Beschreibung:

KEATS, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Thomas and George Keats ("My Dear Brothers") in Teignmouth, Devon; Hampstead, [postmarked 30 January 1818]. 3 pages, 4to, 204 x 252mm. (9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.), address panel (page 4) in Keats's hand: "Messrs Keats Post Office Teignmouth Devon," with postmarks ("Two Py Post Unpaid Hampstead") and remnants of red wax seal, address page docketed in an unidentified hand "Old letters of Brother John," paper separations along original fold lines with very slight losses to several letters (neatly repaired), a small triangular section of paper at outer margin torn away where letter was opened (that portion still present beneath seal) affecting one word on page 3. "I AM CONVINCED THAT MY POEM WILL NOT SELL"; AN IMPORTANT UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF THE POET, DISCUSSING PUBLICATION OF "ENDYMION" AND CONTAINING A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN VERSION OF HIS "LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN" An highly important letter, containing a new holograph version of "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," Keats's tribute to the Elizabethan poets. Thomas and George Keats were spending the winter in Devonshire for the sake of Thomas's health. John, whose first collection of poetry had been published in March 1817, was residing in Hampstead in quarters leased from a postman, Mr. Bentley, and enjoying the company of a circle of acquaintances (many of them mentioned in the letter) which included William Wordsworth Horace Smith (1779-1849), Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864), Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), Charles Armitage Brown ( 1786-1842), John Haslam, Horace Twiss and the painters Joseph Severn and Benjamin Robert Haydon Keats had spent much of the winter revising his longest poem, "Endymion," to be published in April by the firm of Taylor and Hessey. He writes: "You shall have the Papers. I lent the last to Dilke and he has not returned it, or rather I have been in Town two days getting the first Book [proof sheets of "Endymion," see Letters , ed. H.E. Rollins, no.57] which is I think going to the Press to day." Unfortunately, he adds, it will not be in quarto format (it was published as an octavo), and will not contain, as planned, the author's portrait. The publisher, John Taylor "on looking attentively" at the manuscript, had changed his mind. Although Keats has received 5, he owes the same amount to Browne and has "been delaying here two or three days to give it him," without success, and so, he concludes, "must owe him still." He forwards the money with the wish that "perhaps this will do till Haslam sends you some." He enumerates outstanding debts: 10 to Mrs. Bentley (wife of Keats's Hampstead landlord) and 5 to his friend Twiss which have "nearly swallowed up" the money he recently received from Mr. Abbey, his guardian. Keats's publishers, Taylor and Hessey, who had received the first part of the manuscript of "Endymion" earlier this month, had initially proposed publishing it in quarto format, with a portrait of the poet by Haydon (see Letters , ed. Rollins, no.56). "I am convinced now that my poem ["Endymion"] will not sell. Hope they say, so I will wait about three Months before I make my determination - either to get some employment at Home or abroad, or to retire to a very cheap way of living in the Country." His friend Haydon will nevertheless draw his portrait ("my likeness"), which he will keep, although "we can get it engraved." Haydon had proposed a chalk portrait, to be engraved for the book, and had already made the well-known life mask of Keats, in December. Then Keats recounts an anecdote wonderfully evocative of his circle of youthful literary friends at this time: "Horace Twiss dined the other day with Horace Smith - now Horace Twiss has an affectation of repeating extempore verses - which however he writes at home...Horace T. was to recite some verses and before he did he went aside to pretend to make on the spot verses composed before hand. While H.T. was out of the room H.S. wrote the following and handed i

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 92
Auktion:
Datum:
17.05.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
Beschreibung:

KEATS, JOHN. Autograph letter signed ("John") to Thomas and George Keats ("My Dear Brothers") in Teignmouth, Devon; Hampstead, [postmarked 30 January 1818]. 3 pages, 4to, 204 x 252mm. (9 7/8 x 8 1/16 in.), address panel (page 4) in Keats's hand: "Messrs Keats Post Office Teignmouth Devon," with postmarks ("Two Py Post Unpaid Hampstead") and remnants of red wax seal, address page docketed in an unidentified hand "Old letters of Brother John," paper separations along original fold lines with very slight losses to several letters (neatly repaired), a small triangular section of paper at outer margin torn away where letter was opened (that portion still present beneath seal) affecting one word on page 3. "I AM CONVINCED THAT MY POEM WILL NOT SELL"; AN IMPORTANT UNPUBLISHED LETTER OF THE POET, DISCUSSING PUBLICATION OF "ENDYMION" AND CONTAINING A PREVIOUSLY UNKNOWN VERSION OF HIS "LINES ON THE MERMAID TAVERN" An highly important letter, containing a new holograph version of "Lines on the Mermaid Tavern," Keats's tribute to the Elizabethan poets. Thomas and George Keats were spending the winter in Devonshire for the sake of Thomas's health. John, whose first collection of poetry had been published in March 1817, was residing in Hampstead in quarters leased from a postman, Mr. Bentley, and enjoying the company of a circle of acquaintances (many of them mentioned in the letter) which included William Wordsworth Horace Smith (1779-1849), Charles Wentworth Dilke (1789-1864), Leigh Hunt (1784-1859), Charles Armitage Brown ( 1786-1842), John Haslam, Horace Twiss and the painters Joseph Severn and Benjamin Robert Haydon Keats had spent much of the winter revising his longest poem, "Endymion," to be published in April by the firm of Taylor and Hessey. He writes: "You shall have the Papers. I lent the last to Dilke and he has not returned it, or rather I have been in Town two days getting the first Book [proof sheets of "Endymion," see Letters , ed. H.E. Rollins, no.57] which is I think going to the Press to day." Unfortunately, he adds, it will not be in quarto format (it was published as an octavo), and will not contain, as planned, the author's portrait. The publisher, John Taylor "on looking attentively" at the manuscript, had changed his mind. Although Keats has received 5, he owes the same amount to Browne and has "been delaying here two or three days to give it him," without success, and so, he concludes, "must owe him still." He forwards the money with the wish that "perhaps this will do till Haslam sends you some." He enumerates outstanding debts: 10 to Mrs. Bentley (wife of Keats's Hampstead landlord) and 5 to his friend Twiss which have "nearly swallowed up" the money he recently received from Mr. Abbey, his guardian. Keats's publishers, Taylor and Hessey, who had received the first part of the manuscript of "Endymion" earlier this month, had initially proposed publishing it in quarto format, with a portrait of the poet by Haydon (see Letters , ed. Rollins, no.56). "I am convinced now that my poem ["Endymion"] will not sell. Hope they say, so I will wait about three Months before I make my determination - either to get some employment at Home or abroad, or to retire to a very cheap way of living in the Country." His friend Haydon will nevertheless draw his portrait ("my likeness"), which he will keep, although "we can get it engraved." Haydon had proposed a chalk portrait, to be engraved for the book, and had already made the well-known life mask of Keats, in December. Then Keats recounts an anecdote wonderfully evocative of his circle of youthful literary friends at this time: "Horace Twiss dined the other day with Horace Smith - now Horace Twiss has an affectation of repeating extempore verses - which however he writes at home...Horace T. was to recite some verses and before he did he went aside to pretend to make on the spot verses composed before hand. While H.T. was out of the room H.S. wrote the following and handed i

Auktionsarchiv: Los-Nr. 92
Auktion:
Datum:
17.05.1996
Auktionshaus:
Christie's
New York, Park Avenue
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