H. P. (Henry Perry) Leland

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H. P. (Henry Perry) Leland

1828–1868

A mid-19th-century travel writer, he is remembered for Americans in Rome (1863), a lively look at Roman social life and the experience of Americans abroad. His name also turns up alongside his older brother, the writer Charles Godfrey Leland, in period publications of the Civil War era.

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Ye Book of Copperheads

Ye Book of Copperheads

by Charles Godfrey Leland, H. P. (Henry Perry) Leland

About the author

Born in 1828, Henry Perry Leland published Americans in Rome in New York in 1863. The book survives in the Library of Congress and reflects a distinctly 19th-century fascination with travel, society, and the meeting of American and European worlds.

Reliable biographical details about him are scarce, so only a small outline can be confirmed with confidence. Catalog records identify him as H. P. (Henry Perry) Leland, and standard dates place his life from 1828 to 1868.

He is also associated in surviving book records with Charles Godfrey Leland, his better-known brother and fellow author. Because the historical record on Henry Perry Leland is thin, much of his story now has to be traced through his publications rather than through extensive personal biography.