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| | CHARLES GODFREY LELAND - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES GODFREY LELAND (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | In 1869 he went to Europe, and till 1880 was occupied, chiefly in London, with literary work; after returning to Philadelphia for six years, he again made his home in Europe, generally at Florence, where he died on the 20th of March 1903. |
 | | Though his humorous verses were most attractive to the public, Leland was a serious student of folk-lore, particularly of the gipsies, his writings on the latter (Tile English Gypsies and their Language, 1872; The Gypsies, 1882; Gypsy Sorcery end Fortunetelling. |
 | | See his Memoirs (2 vols., 1893), and E. Pennell, C. Leland (1906). |
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