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.
REFERENCES TO John Leyden: Walter Scott to George Ellis, 20 April 1801 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Sydney Smith to Francis Jeffrey, [June] 1801 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Found 1: ¶ 4 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 10 June 1801 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 13 July in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 7 December 1801 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 8 January 1802 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 14 February 1802 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 2 March 1802 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 1 George Ellis to Walter Scott, 5 March 1802 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Robert Southey to C. W. W. Wynn, 9 June 1803 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 George Ellis to Walter Scott, [September 1803] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 20 February 1806 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 Walter Scott to George Ellis, 18 November 1808 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 4 Robert Southey to Walter Scott, 2 April 1811 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Sir James Mackintosh to John Whishaw, 13 August 1811 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Found 2: ¶ 21 ¶ n2 Walter Scott to John Leyden, 25 August 1811 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 3 Medwin, Thomas, 1788-1869, Journal of the Conversations of Lord Byron (London: Henry Colburn, 1824) Sir Walter Scott Found 1: ¶ 14 Sir Walter Scott to Archibald Constable, 29 March 1824 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 2 [Thomas Colley Grattan?], “Lord Byron and his Memoirs” in The Attic Miscellany 1 (October 1824) 26-37 Found 1: ¶ 32 “James Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd” in The Athenaeum 1 (26 February 1828) Found 1: ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1771-78 Found 2: ¶ 7 ¶ n1 Chapter X 1800-02 Found 7: ¶ 4 ¶ 5 ¶ 6 ¶ 7 ¶ 8 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 Chapter XI 1802-03 Found 13: ¶ 5 ¶ 7 ¶ 11 ¶ 12 ¶ 14 ¶ 15 ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ 19 ¶ 20 ¶ 21 ¶ 25 ¶ 32 Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 2: ¶ 11 ¶ 18 Chapter II 1805 Found 1: ¶ 40 Chapter III 1806 Chapter IV 1806-08 Found 1: ¶ 31 Chapter VI 1808-09 Found 1: ¶ 3 Chapter XI 1811 Found 3: ¶ 17 ¶ 18 ¶ n1 Chapter VIII 1814 Found 1: ¶ 22 Chapter XII 1824 Chapter X 1826 Found 1: ¶ 18 Chapter XI 1832 Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. IX. 1802-03 Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Life of Thomson Found 3: ¶ 15 ¶ n1 ¶ n1 Saba Holland, A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855) Chapter II Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 13 Letters 1801 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Literary Reminiscences and Memoirs of Thomas Campbell (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1860) Chapter 3 Found 1: ¶ 16 Chapter 13 Found 1: ¶ 112 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chapter III. Found 2: ¶ 3 ¶ 5 Chap. XXII. Found 3: ¶ 7 ¶ 11 ¶ 14 Whishaw, J. (John), 1764 or 5-1840, The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906) Chapter XIII: 1806-40 Found 1: ¶ n2