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Keats in Hampstead

.Sta,---Keats's own description, in a letter (No 176) to Fanny Brawne, of his haemorrhage would justify Mr. Harold Nicolson's descrip- tion of it as " terrible." He said: " On the night I was taken ill— when so violent a rush of blood came to my lungs that I felt nearly suffocated—I assure you I felt it possible I might not survive." This certainly suggests more than a single spot of blood on the sheet.— Yours faithfully, FRANK A. BEVAN. - The Homestead, Bladon, Oxford.