[54] This letter appears to belong between those of the 8th and 25th of July, 1819; and of the two Thursdays between these dates it seems likelier that the 15th would be the one than that the letter should have been written so near the 25th as on the 22nd. The original having been mislaid, I have not been able to take the evidence of the postmark. It will be noticed that at the close he speaks of a weekly exchange of letters with Miss Brawne; and by placing this letter at the 15th this programme is pretty nearly realized so far as Keats’s letters from the Isle of Wight are concerned. [55] The story in question is one of the many derivatives from the Third Calender’s Story in _The Thousand and One Nights_ and the somewhat similar tale of “The Man who laughed not,” included in the Notes to Lane’s _Arabian Nights_ and in the text of Payne’s magnificent version of the complete work. I am indebted to Dr. Reinhold Köhler, Librarian of the Grand-ducal Library of Weimar, for identifying the particular variant referred to by Keats as the “Histoire de la Corbeille,” in the _Nouveaux Contes Orientaux_ of the Comte de Caylus. Mr. Morris’s beautiful poem “The Man who never laughed again,” in _The Earthly Paradise_, has familiarized to English readers one variant of the legend. [56] It will of course be remembered that no such collection appeared until the following summer, when the _Lamia_ volume was published. [57] I do not find in the present series any letter which I can regard as the particular one referred to in the opening sentence. If Letter XXXV (p. 93) were headed _Tuesday_ and this _Wednesday_, that might well be the peccant document which appears to be missing. [58] _The Life of Percy Bysshe Shelley. In Two Volumes._ London: 1847 (see Vol. II, pp. 86-93). [59] It appeared in No. XXXVII, headed “April, 1818,” on page 1, but described on the wrapper as “published in September, 1818.” [60] See p. liii: it was the 3rd of February, 1820. [61] See Letter XIII, pp. 49-50. [62] See Letter XVII, pp. 57-8. [63] _The Northern Heights of London or Historical Associations of Hampstead, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hornsey, and Islington. By William Howitt, author of ‘Visits to Remarkable Places.’_ (London: Longmans, Green, & Co. 1869.) [64] _Handbook to the Environs of London, Alphabetically Arranged, containing an account of every town and village, and of all the places of interest, within a circle of twenty miles round London. By James Thorne, F.S.A. In Two Parts._ (London: John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1876.) [65] She first appeared upon the London boards in 1822, and afterwards became “Private Reader” to George IV. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Letters of John Keats to Fanny Brawne, by John Keats