John Leyden

(1775-1811)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Leyden, John, 1775-1811 NRA: Leyden John (1775-1811) physician and poet DNB: Leyden, John (1775-1811), linguist and poet LBT ID: JoLeyde1811 VIAF ID: 54362232 LOC ID: no91006101	B/BAP: 1775-09-08 DIED: 1811-08-28
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Scottish antiquary, poet, and orientalist who assisted Walter Scott in compiling the Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border.
CORRESPONDENCE OF John Leyden: Walter Scott to John Leyden, 25 August 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)