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Leslie, Sir John, (1766-1832), Knight, mathematician and natural philosopher

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Surname: Leslie
Pretitle: Sir
Forenames: John
Gender: Male
Date: 1766-1832
Title: Knight
Biography: ODNB link for Leslie, Sir John (1766-1832), Knight mathematician and natural philosopher
Name authority reference: GB/NNAF/P164693 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P17278 )
Collections
Number Description Held by Reference Further information
1
notebooks and papers
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Dc 1 101, 2 57; Gen 1429
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
2
1814-31: corresp and notebooks
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS59
NRA 9763
3
1794-1832: family corresp and papers
Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland
NRAS1560
NRA 21276
4
1794-1820: corresp with Sir Joseph Banks
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MS.9818
5
1788-1823: letters (122) to James Brown
Edinburgh University Library, Special Collections
Dc 2 57
See HMC MS papers of British scientists 1600-1940, 1982
6
1803-26: corresp with Archibald Constable
National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections
MSS 331, 789-92
7
corresp with James David Forbes
St Andrews University Library
msdep7
NRA 13132
8
1825-29: corresp with JS Langton
Lincolnshire Archives
Langton
NRA 8678 Langton
9
1811-32: letters to Macvey Napier
British Library, Manuscript Collections
Add MSS 34611-15 passim