Correspondence and literary manuscripts of Ebenezer Elliott, with related material

Comprises: (1) 2 bound quarto volumes on Elliott: one by E.R. Seary, 1929, containing a 98 ff. typescript carbon biography entitled 'Reinvestigation into the sources of the biographical material of Ebenezer Elliott the Corn-law rhymer', with some illustrations and cuttings; the other entitled 'Notes', but containing a collection of press cuttings; (2) approximately 30 autograph manuscripts, chiefly letters, by Elliott, but including a few poems and epitaphs and a list of possessions, held in two folders; (3) another folder containing: John Elliott, "Plain matters of fact relative to the new Grinder's life preservative", Sheffield, 1822; a few letters of 1913 from W.W. Cadell to W.T. Freemantle; two notes of 1871 by Mrs F.A. Watkins and Miss N. Elliott; a paste-up pamphlet containing some verse in print and an article on Elliott in Pontis's Annual; a few 19th century magazine articles; correspondence of 1928 between Seary and J.A. Symington; miscellaneous other fragments relating to Elliott; (4) Freemantle's copies in his hand of letters by Elliott and of a proposed bibliography

Ebenezer Elliott (1781-1849), 'the corn-law rhymer'. For details of his life and work, see the Dictionary of National Biography

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From the library of Lord Brotherton

In English

A rough list of the contents of the archive is kept inside the box. The letters are listed in the Letters database http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/letters/letlink.htm#elliott