Keats, John

Scope and Contents The collection includes, notebooks, clippings, research notes, artworks, sheet music and letters.The papers centre mainly on a project to edit the letters of the New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins which Dr Sheppard began in 1975 after her retirement, but never completed. The collection also some more personal items dating from Dr Sheppard's earlier career.The provenance of the papers is not known, except insofar as they accompanied books from her library that were...

Scope and Contents Collection contains a letter from Johannes Andersen to Maurice Buxton Forman, in England, on the subject of Keats scholarship and publishing. The letter mentions Charles Brown, Jnr, son of Keats' friend Charles Armitage Brown who emigrated to New Zealand in 1841. It also mentions Hector Bolitho, New Zealand journalist and royal biographer. The letter was purchased at auction in January 1985 with a 1936 copy of Johannes Andersen's Tura and the Fairies...