[The letters given under the head "Miscellaneous" include all Keats's letters published by Lord Houghton, and all outlying letters, whether published or hitherto unpublished, which I have been able to collect, excepting only the letters to Fanny Brawne; and these appear to me to be more appropriately placed in a separate section.-H. B. F.]

MISCELLANEOUS LETTERS.

I.

To CHARLES COWDEN CLarke.

My daintie Davie,

[31 October 1816]

I will be as punctual as the Bee to the Clover. Very glad am I at the thoughts of seeing so soon this glorious Haydon and all his creation. I pray thee let me know when you go to Ollier's and where he resides -this I forgot to ask you-and tell me also when you will help me waste a sullen day-God 'ield you

J K

This note, addressed to "Mr. C. C. Clarke, Mr. Towers, Warner Street, Clerkenwell", seems to have been written before Keats's introduction to Haydon-which apparently took place at Leigh Hunt's, for in Haydon's Autobiography (1853, Volume I, page 331) we read—“ About this time I met John Keats, at Leigh Hunt's, and was amazingly interested by his prematurity of intellectual and poetical power . . . After a short time I liked him so much that a general invitation on my part followed, and we became extremely intimate. He visited my painting-room at all times, and at all times was welcome." In a hurried inspection of the manuscript of Keats's note, I observed no date; but in a sale catalogue of autographs it is assigned to the 31st of October 1816.

II.

To BENJAMIN ROBERT HAYDON.

20 November 1816.

My dear Sir

Last evening wrought me up, and I cannot for

bear sending you the following.

Yours unfeignedly

John Keats

Removed to 76 Cheapside

"The following" was the sonnet beginning

Great spirits now on earth are sojourning;

which will be found at page 82 of Volume I of this edition. Lord Houghton says—" Haydon in his acknowledgment, suggested the omission of a part of it;" and the hiatus was certainly not in the sonnet originally, the line being filled up with the words in a distant Mart; but in a second copy written by Keats and inserted in Haydon's journal those words are omitted and points are substituted. It should perhaps be mentioned that this little note has already been printed in the second volume of Benjamin Robert Haydon: Correspondence and Table-Talk, where it closes thus"Yours imperfectly,

John Keats."

But, although the word unfeignedly is not very clearly written, that is certainly the word. The correspondence with Haydon opened briskly it will be seen that the next letter is dated the afternoon of the same day as the above.