[2] _Life, Letters, and Literary Remains of John Keats. Edited by Richard Monckton Milnes_ (Two Volumes, Moxon, 1848). My references, throughout, are to this edition; but it will be sufficient to cite it henceforth simply as _Life, Letters, &c._, specifying the volume and page. [3] _The Poetical Works of John Keats. Chronologically arranged and edited, with a Memoir, by Lord Houghton, D.C.L., Hon. Fellow of Trin. Coll. Cambridge_ (Bell & Sons, 1876). See p. xxiii, Memoir. [4] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. I, pp. 234-6. [5] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. I, p. 240. [6] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. I, pp. 252-3. [7] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. I, p. 268, and Vol. II, p. 301. Should not the semicolon at _point_ change places with the comma at _knowledge_? [8] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. I, p. 270, and Vol. II, p. 302. [9] This little book, now in my collection, is of great interest. It is marked throughout for Miss Brawne’s use,—according to Keats’s fashion of “marking the most beautiful passages” in his books for her. At one end is written the sonnet referred to in the text, apparently composed by Keats with the book before him, as there are two “false starts,” as well as erasures; and at the other end, in the handwriting of Miss Brawne, is copied Keats’s last sonnet, Bright star! would I were steadfast as thou art. The Spenser similarly marked, the subject of Letter XXXIV, is missing. [10] See _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. II, p. 35. [11] _The Philobiblion a monthly Bibliographical Journal. Containing Critical Notices of, and Extracts from, Rare, Curious, and Valuable Old Books._ (Two Volumes. Geo. P. Philes & Co., 51 Nassau Street, New York. 1862-3.) The Keats letter is at p. 196 of Vol. I, side by side with one purporting to be Shelley’s, a flagrant forgery which has been publicly animadverted on several times lately, having been reprinted as genuine. [12] The correspondent of _The World_ would seem (I only say _seem_; for the matter is obscure) to have used Lord Houghton’s pages for “copy” where a cursory examination indicated that they gave the same matter as the original letter,—transcribing what presented itself as new matter from the original. The fragment of _Friday 27th_ was, on this supposition, in its place when the copies were made for Lord Houghton, because there is the close; but between that time and 1862 it must have been separated from the letter. [13] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. II, p. 55. [14] It is interesting, by the way, to extract the following note of locality from the _Autobiography_ (Vol. II, p. 230): “It was not at Hampstead that I first saw Keats. It was in York-buildings, in the New-road (No. 8), where I wrote part of the _Indicator_; and he resided with me while in Mortimer-terrace, Kentish-town (No. 13), where I concluded it.” [15] _Life, Letters, &c._, Vol. II, p. 61.