BIB_ID
196429
Accession number
MA 7358.6
Creator
Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849.
Display Date
1837 Dec. 5.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 22.5 cm
Notes
Part of a volume of autographs compiled by Jane H. Barge. Select items from the collection are described in individual records; see record for MA 7358 for more details.
Provenance
Jane H. Barge; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Admitting that he is the author of a critique on Bamford; saying that he is glad to hear that Bamford is a "noble fellow"; expounding on the need to recognize and honor "the moral sublime" in men; writing, "I would fain believe that there are millions of such men as [Samuel] Bamford, [William] Hazlitt, [Jeremy] Bentham; and that all men may become like them."
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