Comments on: On the sale by auction of Keats’ love-letters

By: Quaker & Special Collections » Blog Archive » Shall I give you Miss Brawne?

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:13:36 +0000

[...] it was Roberts himself who purchased this letter when it was put up for auction on March 2, 1885 is not certain, but realized prices marked in an extant auction catalog indicate [...]

By: John Anderies

John Anderies — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:12:45 +0000

Dear Jack Shepherd: Thanks for your question about our Keats letter. 25 College Street was an address in London where Keats lived briefly in 1819. An excerpt from Andrew Motion’s biography of Keats (which served as inspiration for the movie) explains this exact time in Keats life:

www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/542409.html

All best,
John Anderies
Head of Special Collections

By: Jack Shepherd, Haverford 1960

Jack Shepherd, Haverford 1960 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:11:36 +0000

Friends:

Can anyone tell me where the address on the Keats’ letter is located? I believe it is “25 College St.”, but would that be in London or one of the two major British universities, Oxford or Cambridge?

The power of the letter remains strong today, and reading it one is almost overcome with the power of Keats’ love for Fanny and his sense that it will not ever be fulfilled.

Jack Shepherd