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Truth more strange than fiction : autograph manuscript fragment.

BIB_ID
197473
Accession number
MA 14275
Creator
Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849.
Display Date
England, 1841 August 21.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 37.3 x 23.1 cm
Notes
Elliott's "Truth more strange than fiction" was published posthumously in: More verse and prose / by the Cornlaw rhymer, volume 2 (London : Charles Fox, 1850).
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
The opening page of a verse drama featuring a dialog between "Nobelly" and "Allbelly", with a footnote by Elliott explaining that the work was inspired by a conversation between himself and Thomas Aldam Payne on the subject of the Corn Laws.