Letter from Ebenezer Elliott, Sheffield, to James Everett, 1829 April 14 : autograph manuscript signed.

Thanking him for promoting his poetry; discussing The Village Patriarch and his authorial identity; writing "nothing could be further from my intention than to attract the notice of the public to my book, on the ground of its having been written by 'a poor man.' There is no merit in such accidents. That it is the work of a poor man is too true. My sympathy with the poor is deep because it is real; it is the sympathy which arises from community of interest..."; commenting on Robert Burns and the idea of "unlearned poets;" describing his many past and present roles and occupations; asking who the proprietors of the Manchester Literary Gazette are; advising Everett on his own poetry; commenting on poetic form and rhyme, and arguing for the advantages of irregular rhyme; discussing the faults of The Village Patriarch in this respect; sending greetings from his wife Frances, who "feels grateful to you for patroni[sing] her poor little man, and his little book."