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Jeffrey, Francis, 1773-1850 (Lord Jeffrey, Scottish judge and literary critic)

 Person

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Dates

  • Existence: 1773 - 1850

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Advocates, 1811

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/75
Scope and Contents Advocates. Etching. 1811. Kay, John, 1742-1826, Artist, Etcher.Published in: Edinburgh Portraits (1837), CCCXXVI.Note: Full title: 'Advocates (Twelve advocates who plead without wigs)'; 'The names of the men in the image are as follows from top to bottom, left to right: Adam Gillies, Alexander Irving, James Millar, Sir Walter Scott, Robert Corbet, George Joseph Bell, William Rose Robinson, John Wright, John Graham Dalyell, Francis Jeffrey, John Jardine, and John Cunninghame'...
Dates: 1811
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Autograph letter, signed, from Sir Walter Scott to Francis Jeffrey, 8 April 1805

 Item — Box CLX-A-289
Identifier: Coll-1147/00-19
Scope and Contents One-page autograph letter signed ("Walter Scott"), to Francis Jeffrey, quarto, Ashistul by Selkirk, 8 April 1805 (fold marks). Explaining that he was unable to send Fleetwood earlier due to "such a variety of things to put to rights about my farm". He hopes "he may relieve your mind and fingers from the task of purveying for the Baillies Devils" and also sends "the work on which the necesaary references are marked." In the second paragraph Scott writes "I wish Mrs Jeffery & you could...
Dates: 8 April 1805
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Letters of, and other papers relating to, Sir Walter Scott

Correspondence of James Sime, Lord Francis Jeffrey and William Sharp

 Fonds — Box Dk.6.23
Identifier: Coll-2211
Scope and Contents Letters (24) of Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey to Dr George Wilson, afterwards Professor of Technology at Edinburgh University about articles in The Edinburgh University Review on Watt and Cavendish, January 1848, and the electric telegraph, Oct. 1849. 1847-49, n.d. A letter of James Patrick Muirhead to Wilson with an extract from a letter of...
Dates: 1847-1890
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

[F. Jeffrey], 1816

 piece
Identifier: Coll-10/1/76
Scope and Contents

[F. Jeffrey]. Etching. 1816. Kay, John, 1742-1826, Artist, Etcher.

Published in: Edinburgh Portraits (1837), CCCII.

Note: Pencil inscription: 'F.Jeffrey'.

Dates: 1816
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Symbolae Scoticae / 1. Edinburgh

Letter from Lord Jeffrey, 1817

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Identifier: MS CHA4/6/12
Dates: 1817
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 4: Letters to Thomas Chalmers / Letters to Thomas Chalmers

Letter from Lord Jeffrey, 1818

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Identifier: MS CHA4/8/12
Dates: 1818
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 4: Letters to Thomas Chalmers / Letters to Thomas Chalmers

Letter from Lord Jeffrey, 1819

 Item
Identifier: MS CHA4/12/1
Dates: 1819
Found in: New College Library Special Collections / The Chalmers Collection / Section 4: Letters to Thomas Chalmers / Letters to Thomas Chalmers

Letter to Francis Jeffrey

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1176
Scope and Contents

Items relating to the poet, Thomas Campbell, include:


  1. - letter, 22 February 1834, to Francis Jeffrey, the Lord Advocate, writing that he is thinking about competing for the position of chair of Rhetoric and Belles Lettres at Edinburgh University, at shelfmark E2009.18
  2. - letter, undated fragment, at shelfmark Dc.3.99/13, f.7
Dates: 1834
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Notebook No.141, 15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 5: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/141
Scope and Contents This notebook contains Charles Lyell's notes from 15 April to 25 April 1846 [the stated end date is inferred from the date recorded in the following notebook], having embarked from Cincinnati, Ohio on April 13th and traveling into Pennsylvania. The Lyells traveled on the steamer Clipper, continuing northward on the Ohio River from Cincinnati to Pittsburgh (arrived on April 16th), and then by carriage across the Alleghenies onto Philadelphia, a return visit destination. The Indian Mound south...
Dates: 15 April 1846 - 25 April 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning: This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates: 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

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