LBT ID: JaPurvi1811 | |
SOURCES: The Edinburgh Annual Register for 1826 8 (1828) 173; James C. Corson, Notes and Index to Grierson's Letters of Scott | |
The early friend of the poet John Leyden; he was a naval purser. A James Purvis was
killed in an explosion on the Pitt, 13 July 1826. | |