Love Made Public


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Sotheby et al. Catalogue of the Original Autograph Love Letters of John Keats... Keats *EC8.K2262.Q885s.

Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Original Autograph Love Letters of John Keats…. (London, 1885).

Plagued by financial troubles, Fanny Brawne Lindon’s children sold Keats’s letters to a bookseller for £100. The letters were auctioned on March 2, 1885, and the sale realized £543 17s.

The provenance of each the letters in the Houghton Keats collection, traced back to this sale, can be found in the finding aid to the Keats collection.

Keats *EC8.K2262.Q885s. Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge. Catalogue of the Original Autograph Love Letters of John Keats…. London: Dryden Press: J. Davy & Sons, 1885. Gift of Arthur A. Houghton, Jr., 1941.