James Bruce of Kinnaird

(1730-1794)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Bruce, James, 1730-1794 NRA: Bruce, James (1730-1794) African Traveller DNB: Bruce, James, of Kinnaird (1730-1794), traveller in Africa LBT ID: JaBruce1794 VIAF ID: 32094803 LOC ID: n50043379	B/BAP: 1730-12-14 DIED: 1794-04-26
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Scottish traveler in Africa; he was the author of Travels to Discover the Source of the Nile, 5 vols (1790).
REFERENCES TO James Bruce of Kinnaird: Walter Scott to Anna Seward, [September 1806] in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 1: ¶ 6 Lord Byron to Thomas Moore, 22 August 1813 in Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ n1 Robert Southey to John Rickman, 11 April 1818 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Moore, Thomas, 1779-1852, Letters and Journals of Lord Byron 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1830) Life of Byron: 1807 Found 1: ¶ 41 Life of Byron: 1813 Found 1: ¶ n1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [25 February 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Francis Bond Head to John Murray, 14 June 1830 in Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter II 1805 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXIII. 1818 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 9: Excursion Found 1: ¶ 4 Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904, Memoir of John Murray 2 Vols (London: John Murray, 1891) Chap. XXIX. Found 3: ¶ 52 ¶ 53 ¶ n1 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1815 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1830 Found 1: ¶ 2