Janus: Papers of John Lee

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Papers of John Lee

Title	Papers of John Lee
Reference	GBR/0275/Lee
Creator	Lee, John (1783-1866)
Covering Dates	1793–1865
Extent and Medium	87 items; paper
Repository	St John's College Library

Content and context

Traveller, astronomer, antiquary; son of John Fiott; educated at St John's College; made a tour through Europe and the East collecting objects of antiquity, 1807-10; MA 1809; assumed name of Lee by royal license, 1815; FSA, 1828; built observatory on his estate, 1830; FRS, 1831; practising member of the ecclesiastical courts till 1858; QC, 1864; published scientific and antiquarian works.

Letters (dated 1793-1865); correspondence between Thomas Smart Hughes and John Lee and other documents relating to Payssio Tipaldo, Archimandrite of Cephalonia (dated 1824-5); diaries and sketchbooks

Access and Use

Please cite as St John's College Library, Papers of John Lee

Index Terms

Antiquaries

Travel

Astronomy

Lee, John (1783-1866) antiquary and astronomer

St John's Library/Lee contains:

Box 1a

Letters.
63 items; paper.

1793–1865

Box 1b

Archimandrite of Cephalonia.
14 items; paper.

1821–1825

U.30

Diaries and Sketchbooks detailing travels in Ireland and Scandanavia. Diary of a tour from London to Ireland August 1806 to March 1807 in 5 notebooks:. London to Holywell in Wales. . Holywell to Dublin and Fermoy. . Mallow to Bantry. . Bantry to Castlemain. . Killarnay to Dublin. . 3 sketchbooks containing pencil and pen sketches from the above tour. . Sketchbook containing pencil and pen sketches from tour of Sweden August November 1807. Sketchbook containing pencil and pen sketches from tour of Denmark and Sweden 1808-9.
Creator: Lee, John (1783-1866).
10 books; paper.

1806–1809