University of Dundee Archives

MS 58/1/9
Item
1839

Letter dated 24 July 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns his visit to Edinburgh. Ends with a poem 'When the friends o' your youth leave their country and home...'.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/3
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 13 April 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Further observations on Liverpool, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/6
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 24 June 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns his intention to visit Edinburgh. Includes a reference to a boat race "o'er at Fife".

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/7
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 28 June 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Concerns the Queen's birthday celebrations in Liverpool, "wha would thocht there wad been sic an ado about an affair o' that kind, in a muckle toon like Liverpool". Ends with a poem 'Ae muinlicht nicht I chanced to stray...'.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/1
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 16 March 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Concerns his first impressions of Liverpool "a very busy and a very dirty town". Includes a reference to floating chapels in Liverpool docks.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/2
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 23 March 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Contains a request for Leighton's impressions of his travels, particularly in Edinburgh.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/5
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 25 May 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns the Queen's birthday celebrations in Dundee, "a gae row for a' that and the provost got his head cut by some rascal...". Includes a reference to a "Grand Tea Garden" opened in Reform Street by Mr Tammie Lammie.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/11
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 21 August 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns his weariness with Dundee since his return from Edinburgh.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/8
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 23 July 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Description of race meeting held at Liverpool.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/10
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 8 August 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Description of visit to race meeting at Monifieth.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/4
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 21 May 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns events in Dundee, particularly the end of Mr McVicar's lectures.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/12
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 26 August 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Description of a wake held at Hale, near Liverpool. Ends with a poem 'and now when I think on't my heart grows sair...'.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/17
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 30 January 1845. Dundee. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Observations on procrastination, selfishness, and friendship. Description of his loneliness in Dundee at hogmanay.

Letters Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton and Mrs Leighton

MS 58/2
Series
1859-1875

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letters from Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton, and to Mrs Robert Leighton. 1859-1875.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/15
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated November 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Concerns the forthcoming wedding of his brother, David, to Jeffrey Inglis' sister, Elizabeth.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/16
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 9 December 1843. Dundee. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Concerns his feeling of being a stranger in his home town, Dundee, and his desire to live elsewhere.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/1/14
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 30 October 1839. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Concerns the Michaelmas supper at which David Leighton was made Deacon of Bakers. Includes a reference to forthcoming wedding as a "ploy".

Letter James Smith / Alexander Smith

MS 58/3
Item
1806

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 2 November 1806 from James Smith in Glasgow to Alexander Smith, teacher of music, Dundee 1806. Concerns the death of his brother William while serving as a lieutenant with the 58th Regiment at the siege of a fortress in Calabria, Italy, during the Napoleonic Wars.

Jeffrey Inglis / Mrs Robert Leighton

MS 58/2/3
Item
1859

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 14 October 1875. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Mrs Robert Leighton. Concerns the recent visit of her sons to Dundee and reminiscences of his friendship with Robert Leighton. Includes a reference to sale of poetry books.

Jeffrey Inglis / Mrs Robert Leighton

MS 58/2/2
Item
1859

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 4 May 1870. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Mrs Robert Leighton. Concerns the sale of her late husband's poetry books.

Jeffrey Inglis / Robert Leighton

MS 58/2/1
Item
1859

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 19 March 1859. Dundee. Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton. Sends thanks for the copy of Leighton's poetry book Rimes and promises to visit him, his wife and family in Ayrshire.

Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1/13
Item
1839

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Letter dated 25 October 1839. Liverpool. Robert Leighton to Jeffrey Inglis. Concerns his visits to Wigan, Chorley, Preston, Bolton, Manchester and his impressions of the Lancashire countryside.

Correspondence Robert Leighton / Jeffrey Inglis

MS 58/1
Series
1839-1845

Part of Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

Correspondence between Robert Leighton and Jeffrey Inglis. 1839-1845.

Robert Leighton. Scottish Poet

MS 58
Collection
1806-1875

Correspondence between Robert Leighton and Jeffrey Inglis, 1839-1845; letters from Jeffrey Inglis to Robert Leighton, and to Mrs Robert Leighton, 1859-1875; and letter from James Smith in Glasgow to Alexander Smith, teacher of music, Dundee, 1806.

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