Douglas-Lithgow, R. A. (Robert Alexander), 1846-1917
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Physician, poet, and author of the Dictionary of American-Indian place and proper names in New England (1909), as well as works on poetry, medicine, the history of Nantucket, etc.
Born in Ireland in 1846 and educated there, Douglas-Lithgow practiced medicine in London, where he also was an officer of the Royal Society of Literature of Great Britain and Ireland. In the late 1890's, Douglas-Lithgow must have emigrated to Boston, where he continued his writing on regional topics.
From the description of Letter : Boston, Mass., to [Frederick Webb] Hodge, 1909 Jan. 11. (Newberry Library). WorldCat record id: 34464413
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- Anthropologists
- Names, Geographical
- Manuscripts, American
- Names, Indian
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- Massachusetts--Boston (as recorded)
- New England (as recorded)
