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Dillon, Emile Joseph (philologist, author and journalist, pseudonym 'E B Lanin')

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1854 - 1933

Biography

Emile Joseph Dillon was born in Dublin and spent the early part of his life studying for the priesthood. At the age of 21 he turned his attention to oriental languages and studied under Ernest Renan and at several European Universities. From the mid 1880s, Dillon worked as a journalist for several newspapers, including Odesskiye Novosti and The Telegraph, and contributed many articles to British and American publications on Russian and foreign affairs. Dillon died in Barcelona in 1933.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Letters to and concerning George Prothero as editor of the ‘Quarterly Review’ of correspondents with surnames D-G., 1901-1919.

 File
Identifier: MS.42620
Scope and Contents The letters have been arranged alphabetically by correspondent surname.Letters of Albert Venn Dicey to George Prothero, with one letter of Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett also to Prothero, 1908-1915: folios 1-14;Letters of Emile Joseph Dillon to George Prothero, 1908: folios 15-18;Letter of Henry Austin Dobson to George Prothero, 1908: folios 19-20;Letter of Samuel Rolles Driver to George Prothero, undated: folio 21;Letter and...
Dates: 1901-1919.

Letters to John Murray, publishers, of correspondents with surnames from Dillon to Distant., 1821-1903.

 File
Identifier: MS.40334
Scope and Contents This manuscript mainly includes letters, 1885-1892 and uncertain dates, of Ralph Disraeli to John Murray III and John Murray IV. Some of them concern his work on “Home letters. Written by Lord Beaconsfield, 1830-1852”.All the letters are arranged alphabetically by correspondent and by date under each name.Dillon, Emile, 1891-1901: folios 1-11;Dillon, Harold, 1903: folios 12-13;Dillon, John, 1858: folios 14-15;Dillon, John J.,...
Dates: 1821-1903.

Papers of Emile Joseph Dillon, containing correspondence, notebooks and literary papers.

 Fonds
Identifier: Acc.12382/1-67
Scope and Contents

These papers were given to Father Ernest Eugene Laws by Dillon's widow, as research material for a proposed biography of Dillon. Laws transcribed and translated many of the letters and annotated some of the originals.

Dates: 1871-1939, 1951-1955, undated.

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