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Joseph Severn Papers (MS Eng 1434). Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Severn was an English painter and friend of the poet John Keats. Elizabeth (Montgomerie) Severn was his wife and Walter Severn was his son.
Organized into the following series:
Includes letters from Charles Lock Eastlake, James Thomas Fields, Harry Buxton
Forman, William Ewart Gladstone, Seymour Stocker Kirkup, John Ruskin, among other
correspondents, many of which concern the poet, John Keats. There are autograph
letters to Elizabeth (Montgomerie) Severn and Walter Severn from various
correspondents as well as a manuscript letter in the hand of Charles Armitage Brown
from John Keats to Frances Mary (Keats) Llanos Gutiérrez. There are many illustrated
letters including a letter with drawings in watercolor by Arthur Severn, and a
drawing in ink copied by Walter Severn of proposed design for the graves of John
Keats and Joseph Severn. Compositions include unsigned autograph manuscripts of
Severn's works as well as an unsigned autograph manuscript of proposed inscription
for tomb of Joseph Severn by Sir Vincent Eyre, and a manuscript fragment of
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Declaring himself to be the son of George Gordon Byron, 6th baron.
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Concerns some Keats manuscripts.
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See also item no. 133 in this series.
Letters to
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Severn, Joseph, 1793-1879. See items nos. 304-317 in this series.
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Includes 2 drafts.
General plan for a novel discussed in
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Translation of printed text on p. 2.
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[Poems]. See items no. 91 and 290 in this series.
Includes a general outline, f.1 (p.1) and ten sections numbered 1,2,7,15,20,32,36,42,56,57.
Parts of no. 7 publ.
Most of no. 32 publ. Sharp, pp. 289-292.
Most of no. 36 publ. Sharp, pp. 179-183.
Most of no. 42 publ. Sharp, pp. 293-301.
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See item no. 368 in this series.
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With MS (copy in the hand of Walter Severn) of proposed inscription for
tomb of
Copy of the first draft.
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