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Elliott, Charles Wyllys

author, was born May 27, 1817, in Guilford, Conn. He was a New York writer, at one time a landscape gardener of note, and the author of The Book of American Interiors; Pottery and Porcelain; Remarkable Characters and Places in the Holy Land; Cottages and Cottage Life; Mysteries, or Glimpses of the Supernatural; St. Domingo, its Revolution and its Hero, Toussaint l'Ouverture; New England History, from its Discovery by the Northmen; and Wind and Whirlwind, a novel. He died in 1883.

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