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Jeffrey, Francis, Lord, 1773-1850 (Scottish judge)

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Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

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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

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