Augustus Le Plongeon

Alice Dixon Le Plongeon was a writer, lecturer, photographer, and amateur archaeologist working from the 1870s. Her writings include field notes, a travel diary, a book of articles, two epic poems, several smaller poems and...

Augustus Le Plongeon was born twenty-five years before ADLP , on 4 May 1826, to French parents on the island of Jersey in the Channel Islands, closer to France than England though politically British...

Shortly after their first arrival in Mérida, Yucatán, ADLP caught yellow fever. Since Augustus had apprenticed as a doctor, he patiently fulfilled the duties of nurse and physician with the most assiduous care, not...

After leaving Belize for Yucatán in the late 1870s, Alice and Augustus Le Plongeon began to struggle with financial difficulties. They returned to New York City several times to seek funding, and managed to find...

As scholars became increasingly critical of Augustus , he remained in the background writing while Alice continued to make public appearances. When she had first begun to publish, she had taken a decision to...