John Scott of Amwell

(1730-1783)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Scott, John, 1731-1783 DNB: Scott, John (1730-1783), poet and writer LBT ID: JoScott1783 VIAF ID: 7740273 LOC ID: n85067318	B/BAP: 1730-01-09 DIED: 1783-12-12
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Quaker poet and essayist, and acquaintance of Samuel Johnson; his odes and elegies were widely read.
REFERENCES TO John Scott of Amwell: Robert Southey to Bernard Barton, 21 January 1820 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Bernard Barton, [5 April 1823] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XXV. 1820-1821 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 8: Bernard Barton Found 1: ¶ 18 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1823 Found 1: ¶ 1