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Walter Severn English watercolour painter son of Joseph Severn who nursed the dying Keats. Autograph Letter Signed to ‘Mrs. FitzSimon’ regarding the sending of an autograph and an engraving of a painting by his father of Keats.

Best.-Nr. 26261 — 16 January 1897. On letterhead of 9 Earls Court Square South Kensington London. A successful member of an English artistic family. See the Oxford DNB entries on his father Joseph Severn who nursed John Keats in Rome in his final illness and sister Mary Newton. 1p 12mo. In good condition lightly aged with thin strip of glue from mount to inner margin and details typed at head. Folded once. Reads: ‘Dear Mrs FitzSimon / I have much pleasure in sending an autograph of my dear friend Sir F. Leighton. I send also the portrait of Keats. It is photogravure by Hollyer from one of my father’s pictures / Yours sincerely / Walter Severn’. 16 January 1897. On letterhead of 9 Earls Court Square, South Kensington [London]. unknown