The New York Times

Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found

The eight letters by the 19th-century Romantic poet to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne, were taken decades ago from a Whitney family estate on Long Island. By Tom Mashberg In early July 1819, John Keats sat ...
Smithsonian Magazine

After a Poet’s Love Story Was Cut Short, His Letters Mysteriously Disappeared—Until Rare Book Dealers Acted on a Hunch

In addition to 54 poems, John Keats wrote some three dozen love letters to his fiancée, Fanny Brawne. Joseph Severn painted this portrait of the poet in 1819. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons A set ...