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What happened to John Keats’s brother Tom?

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Keats, John — John Keats John Keats, drawing by Joseph Severn, 19th century.

John Keats’s brother, Tom Keats, suffered from tuberculosis for an extended period. In the autumn of 1818, the poet nursed Tom through his final illness until he passed away.1