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Melville De Lancey Landon (Eli Perkins) (1839–1910)
Landon, Melville de Lancey [“Eli Perkins”]. An American humorist; born in New York State in 1839; died in 1910. Among his works are: ‘The Franco-Prussian War in a Nutshell’ (1871); ‘Saratoga in 1901’ (1872); ‘Eli Perkins’s Wit, Humor, and Pathos’ (1883); ‘Fun and Fact’; ‘Money’; ‘Thirty Years of Wit.’