Offprints.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Separately printed portions of larger works, such as periodical articles or book chapters, produced at the same time of issuance as the original from the same setting of type or plates; typically made for the authors' use or for promotional purposes. Distinct from ""reprints"", which, with reference to articles, is used for portions of larger works produced subsequent to the publication of the original, usually but not always from the same setting of type or plates.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
Collection
Identifier: Acc.14317/1-34
Content Description
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1877-2003 and undated, with most of the material dated 1877-1920s.
Offprint of Morrison's article "Notices of the discovery of a stone coffin and fragment of a Celtic cross at Lethnott, Forgarshire, and of a bronze Celt at Durness, Sutherlandshire", with associated correspondence., 1883-1885.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/18
Scope and Contents
Morrison's article appeared in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 19 (1885), 315-320. The offprint is bound into a volume together with correspondence, 1883-1885, concerning its publication. With Hew Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.
Dates:
1883-1885.
Research on Clan Morrison and Sutherland archaeology., 1885 and undated.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/17-18
Content Description
From the Collection:
Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison (1850-1935), Gaelic scholar and a native Gaelic speaker from Torrisdale, Sutherland. He became the first librarian of the Edinburgh Free Public Library, now Central Library, a post which he held until his retirement in 1922. The library had been founded with the help of a gift from Andrew Carnegie, with whom Morrison remained in close friendship while acting as representative for Carnegie's library foundation scheme.The papers include:...
Dates:
1885 and undated.