RELICS OF KEATS.
Tho Keats Museum and Library in Keats Grove, Hampstead, was recently opened bv the Marquess of crewe. Among the treasures is a large lock of hair cut from the head of the poet the day following his death. Mr. T. J. Wise has presented a companion lock of hair of Fanny Brawne. In tho house are many objects which were there in Keats' time, and others are promised. To the security of the museum have been transferred "the engagement ring which the poet gave to Fanny Brawne, the brooch he presented to her sister Margaret, and many personal relics of Miss Brawne. There ia also a letter that Shelley wrote to Mrs. Leigh Hunt, in November, 1820, stating that he was expecting Keats in Italy. "I intend," he writes, "to bo the physician both of his body and his souL I am aware," hS adds, ''that I am nourishing a rival who will far surpass me; and this ia additional motive and will be an added pleasure.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20976, 12 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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170RELICS OF KEATS. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20976, 12 September 1931, Page 9 (Supplement)
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