His works include a translation of Virgil's Aeneid, and a noted paper on the Easter Hare. He began a correspondence with Herman Melville, after requesting a reading list from the author, and introduced him to works by the then obscure poet James Thomson. Billson forwarded his correspondence to Melville's biographers.[1]
Charles J. Billson was President (1893–94) of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society.[2]
His publications included:-
(1895) County Folk-Lore - Leicestershire and Rutland, London, Folk Lore Society
(1920) Mediaeval Leicester, Edgar Backus, Leicester
(1924) Leicester Memoirs, Edgar Backus, Leicester
Referencesedit
^Gale, Robert L. (1995). A Herman Melville encyclopedia. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 39–40. ISBN978-0-313-29011-4. Retrieved 15 February 2011.
^ "Presidents: Charles James Billson" Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society
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