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C.D. Warner, et al., comp.
The Library of the World’s Best Literature. An Anthology in Thirty Volumes. 1917.

Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1804–1884)

Elwyn, Alfred Langdon. An American poet and prose-writer; born in Portsmouth, NH, July 9, 1804; died in Philadelphia, March 15, 1884. He originated the Pennsylvania Agricultural Society and Farm School, and was greatly interested in institutions for the blind and feeble-minded. He published: ‘Bonaparte,’ a poem (1848); ‘Glossary of Supposed Americanisms’ (1860); ‘Melancholy and its Musings’ (1881).