Alexander Ireland letter : Manchester, England, to W.H. Dixon : ALS, 1868 Feb. 27.

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Alexander Ireland letter : Manchester, England, to W.H. Dixon : ALS, 1868 Feb. 27.

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Ireland, Alexander, 1810-1894

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Alexander Ireland (1810–1894) was a Scottish journalist, man of letters, and bibliophile, notable as a biographer of Ralph Waldo Emerson as well as a friend of Emerson and other literary celebrities, including Leigh Hunt and Thomas Carlyle, and the geologist and scientific speculator Robert Chambers. His own most popular book was The Book-Lover's Enchiridion, published under a pseudonym in 1882. Ireland was born at Edinburgh on 9 May 1810; his father was a businessman. As a young man he had a...