OF JOHN KEATS, THE POET.

_To the Editor._

Sir,--Underneath I send you a copy of a document which “poor Keats” sent

to Mr. ----, in August, 1820, just before his departure for Italy.

This paper was intended by him to operate as his last will and

testament, but the sages of Doctors’ Commons refused to receive it as

such, for reasons which to a lawyer would be perfectly satisfactory,

however the rest of the world might deem them deficient in cogency:--