Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition/Adolphus, John Leycester
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Adolphus, John Leycester, son of the above, also a distinguished barrister (died 1862), was the first to pierce the mask of the author of Waverley, in a series of critical letters addressed to Richard Heber, which he published in 1821.