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A Farewell to Rivilin : autograph manuscript / written for music by Ebenezer Eliott.

BIB_ID
195435
Accession number
MA 14272.1
Creator
Elliott, Ebenezer, 1781-1849.
Display Date
Place not identified, between 1841 and 1849.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 22.8 x 18.7 cm
Notes
Poem written on the occasion of his retirement and just prior to his departure from his home in Sheffield in 1841 and relocation to residence near Great Houghton in the Barnsley area, where he lived until the time of his death in 1849.
Appeared in multiple journals in 1850 and included in the posthumous edition of Elliott's poems, "The poetical works of Ebenezer Elliott", volume 2 (London : Henry S. King & Co., 1876); also published as "A farewell to Rivelin."
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.