Charles Mackay

(1812-1889)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 NRA: Mackay, Charles (1812-1889), poet and journalist DNB: Mackay, Charles (1812-1889), poet and writer LBT ID: ChMacka1889 VIAF ID: 77450273 LOC ID: n79127881	B/BAP: 1812-03-26 DIED: 1889-12-24
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Scottish poet and journalist who wrote for The Sun and the Morning Chronicle; he published Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions, and the Madness of Crowds, 3 vols (1841).
CORRESPONDENCE OF Charles Mackay: Charles Mackay to Samuel Rogers, 15 February 1840 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889)