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Robert Walsh (1784–1859)
Walsh, Robert. An American lawyer, journalist, and author; born at Baltimore, MD, in 1784; died on Feb. 7, 1859, at Paris, where he had been consul, 1845–51. He wrote for Dennie’s Portfolio, and edited the American Review of History and Politics, the first American quarterly (22 vols., 1827–37). Others of his publications are: ‘Correspondence respecting Russia between R. G. Harper and Robert Walsh, Jr.’ (1813); ‘An Essay on the Future State of Europe’ (1813); biographical prefaces to an edition of the English Poets in fifty small volumes; ‘An Appeal from the Judgments of Great Britain respecting the United States of America’ (1819).