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 | | Neither did Richard Potter, the first American ventriloquist, ever mention it in his twenty-seven years of performing and advertising, although he, too, at least occasionally used "a wooden doll, with which we have seen him hold spirited conversations" in his ventriloquial act, as we know from an 1819 account. |
 | | It is far more likely, however, that Brown did not know de la Chapelle's work (which was widely cited and excerpted) immediately, but had only read accounts of it or excerpts from it at second hand. |
 | | The same anecdote is recounted of the unidentified contemporaneous ventriloquist (Rannie claimed it was he) cited in the Encyclopedia; or, Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Miscellaneous Literature, 21 vols. |
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