Sketch of John Lee : the very reverend the principal of the University of Edinburgh, etc. / by Sir John Rose Cormack.

Date:
1875
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Credit: Sketch of John Lee : the very reverend the principal of the University of Edinburgh, etc. / by Sir John Rose Cormack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    LIBRARY OF PRINCIPAL LEE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING POST. Sir,—-Will you allow us, as agents for the representatives ot the late Very Rev. Principal Lee, of the University of Edinburgh, in correction of a statement which recently appeared in your paper, to mention that it was only a portion (and the works chiefly duplicates) of the extensive and valuable library of the Principal which was sold some years ago 1 He retained until his death the most valuable portion, to which he continued to make additions both of books and manuscripts. It is the intention of his representatives to expose his library to sale early next winter. There are other mistakes in the article containing the above state- ment, but we will not encroach on your space by pointing out and asking correction of these. We remain, &c., W. and J. COOK, Writers to the Signet. 32, Abercromby-place, Edinburgh, August 6. [None of our statements regarding the late respected Principal Lee were made unadvisedly; and from competent judges resident in Edin- burgh, and intimate friends of the deceased, we have received sponta- neous assurances of the substantial accuracy of our leading facts and opinions. With regard to the library, if we erred, we erred justifiably. Some years ago the Principal’s library was advertised and catalogued for sale by Messrs. Tait and Nisbit, of Edinburgh. By them a library understood to be the library of Dr. Lee was sold. There was some inaccuracy in the dates we assigned to Dr. Lee’s official connection with St. Andrew’s and Aberdeen, but essential facts and inferences were not thereby affected. The dates were corrected by our corre- spondent “ C. M.” in our impression on Thursday the 28th ult.— Ed. M. P.] POSTHUMOUS WORK OF PRINCIPAL LEE. In i860 two volumes of great value by Principal Lee, edited by his erudite and accomplished son Professor William Lee, D.D., were published by William Blackwood and Sons, of Edinburgh and London, entitled ‘ Lectures on the History of the Church of Scotland from the Reformation to the Revolution Settlement.’ By the late Very Rev.