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TITLE

Autograph letter by Joseph Severn to Lord Tennyson

SUMMARY

This letter concerns a proposal to erect a new monument on Keats's grave.

NAME

Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879 (sender)
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson Baron, 1809-1892 (recipient)

DATE

1859 January 31

ITEM

4 sheets

MEDIUM

manuscript

MATERIALS

paper

LANGUAGE

eng

GENRE

autographs (manuscripts)
letters (correspondence)

PERSONAL NAME SUBJECT

Keats, John, 1795-1821

TOPICAL TERM SUBJECT

sepulchral monuments

CHRONOLOGICAL SUBJECT

1859

ACQUISITION NOTE

Purchased by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association (KSMA), July 1980.

PROVENANCE

As reported by Sheila Birkenhead in the annual “Report of the British Committee,” the letter was acquired by the KSMA at a sale of Tennyson’s papers in July, 1980 (Keats-Shelley Journal 31 [1982]).

LOCATION

KSH

Archive

KTS-1.41


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