xt7qjq0stw34_1144 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/mets.xml https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474.dao.xml unknown archival material 1997ms474 English University of Kentucky The physical rights to the materials in this collection are held by the University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center. Contact the Special Collections Research Center for information regarding rights and use of this collection. W. Hugh Peal manuscript collection Ebenezer Elliott letter to John Fowler text 43.94 Cubic Feet 86 boxes, 4 oversize boxes, 22 items Poor-Good Peal accession no. 11453. Ebenezer Elliott letter to John Fowler 2017 https://exploreuk.uky.edu/dips/xt7qjq0stw34/data/1997ms474/Box_11/Folder_26/Multipage3738.pdf 1841 February 24 1841 1841 February 24
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Peal accession no. 11106. Includes a transcript and biographical clipping.
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Sheffield 24th Feby 1841
Now shew yourself a man - and a cricket. Write a critique
on Vivia Perpetua by Sarah Flower Adams, Lizzie's sister -
call it a Lecture on the Modern Drama - and spout it to the
wisest of mortals, in our holy Chapel of Radicalism. Per-
haps Tait would accept it - and you might spout it after-
wards.

I would give my ears (and you know they are long ones) to
be the author of the last two acts of this play — they are
really fine; and there are some pathetic passages towards
the close. Sarah can draw characters.

I am D Sir Yours very truly
mr John Fowler Ebenezer Elliott

Ebenezer Elliott(1781—1849) was the "corn-law rhymer", an un-
compromising opponent of what he called the "bread law'. Sarah
Flower Adams(1805-1848) wrote Vivia Perpetua", a dramatic po-
em in 1841, but she is better known for her hymns, notably,
"Nearer my God to thee". "Lizzie" was her sister Eliza Flower
(1803—46) musical composer. Willaim Tait(1795—1864) was the
publisher and proprietor of Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, a lit—
irary and radical publication to which Mill, Cobden, and Bright
contributed

"Wordsworth speaks highly of "Corn Law Rhymes". He says: "None
of us have done better than he has in his best, though there is
a deal of stuff arising from his hatred of existing things. Like
Byron, Shelley, &c he looks on much with an evil eye." Words-
worth 1ikes his later writings the best, and mentioned the "Ran—
ter" as containing some fine passages. Elliott has a fine eye for
nature. He is an extraordinary man." (Reminiscences of Henry
Crabb Robinson, vol ii, page 223)

(Collection of Captain F. L. Pleadwell)

6i HOWITT (William, Aut/zor) An Interesting Series of Thirteen A.Lrs.s. (one has w ‘
had the signature cut out), 42 pp., 8vo, 1844-50. all to John Fowler, tWo of the letters 217 ELLIOTT (Ebenezer, Com Law Rhyme»)

refer to Ebenezer Elliott, £1 55 The Gypsy, an old Legend modernized,
“ Some time ago somebody sent me an article from the Sheﬂ'leld ‘Independent’ on Ebenezer ; THE v

Elliott, in which it said that I claimed to have introduced mum's work to Southey, and that .r of th‘ ORIGH‘AL. AUTOGRAPH MAVUSCRIPF
the fact was, he was well acquainted with the Poems before and with Elliott too. I suppose 13 poem 7072113” on 16 1717., folio, dedi-
you wrote this article, and therefore I now write to you t‘? 1say that the statement Iii“ tree outed to folm Fowler, Gt. Houghton, m'.
‘Independent’ was not correct. What I stated in my ar ice in t e ‘Homes and aun s Bar ~ _

of the Poets’ was simply this. That I gave Wordsworth, who happened to be at my nsley, full calf, blznd tooled, £6/10/
house, ‘the Corn-Law Rhymes,’ and that he handed them over to Southey, who immediately [M-Il . 7 . 71847477",
gave a notice of them in the quarterly.” etc. *"