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Proofs of Morrison's edition. The printed pages, pasted onto the backs of Edinburgh Public Library book order forms, are heavily annotated with background notes and corrections, expansions and re-ordering of the texts of the songs.

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Photocopies made from a notebook containing the first part of Morrison's handwritten autobiography, beginning "I do not suppose that a sketch of my life can be of any general interest". The writing covers 13 leaves, rectos only. The original notebook remains in private hands.

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Photocopies from a notebook containing the continuation of Morrison's handwritten autobiography, beginning "On the 10th October 1866 I began teaching in Eriboll". The writing covers 48 leaves, mainly written on the recto sides only. The versos of pages 34-36 contain the additional story of the "Tongue piano". The original notebook remains in private hands.

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:...

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Letters addressed to Morrison as a representative for Andrew Carnegie's scheme to support local libraries. Including some letters of Carnegie's wife, Louise Whitfield Carnegie.

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:...

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:...

Scope and Contents Papers concerning Morrison's research into the diary of the Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness (1696-1763). The whereabouts of this diary, which covered the years 1737-1763 in eight octavo volumes, are not currently known, although a number of extracts were copied from it. MacDonald's position as minister of Rob Donn's parish during the poet's lifetime makes his diary a valuable document that links to many references in Rob Donn's poetry.According to Morrison's account...

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Transcription of passages from the diary that concern the Jacobite Rising of 1745-1746, handwritten by Morrison and in a typescript version which is headed "Rebellion of '45 in Sutherlandshire". With a photocopy of the handwritten transcription.

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:...

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Including letters, 1903-1915, of Professor George Edward Bateman Saintsbury (1845-1933), from 1895 to 1915 professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at Edinburgh University.

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:...

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:...

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The volumes contains the original letters of reference and printed transcriptions of them, as well as published reviews of Morrison's 'Tourist's guide to Sutherland and Caithness' (1883). With Hew Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.

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3 letters of the Gaelic poet and editor Alexander MacDonald, known as "Gleannach", concerning his current publication plans. He also requests that Morrison investigates Carnegie funding for a reprint of the treatise on the bagpipe written by Joseph McDonald, son of the Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.

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Letters of William J. R. Watson, Professor of Celtic, University of Edinburgh. Including a letter, 1907, concerning the fate of the library of the Gaelic scholar Dr Alexander MacBain.

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Containing (i) the manuscript of an article headed "Manuscript diary of Rev. Murdochch MacDonald, M.A. Minister of Durness, from 1726 to 1763. With notes by Hew Morrison, F.S.A. Scot." in 2 exercise books; (ii) "A journey to the south in 1737", from MacDonald's manuscript diary, printed and ms sheets, incomplete on one printed sheet, uncut, paginated 1-8.

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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.

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:...

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Photocopies of three autobiographical accounts of Hew Morrison, made with the permission of Morrison's descendants, the donors. Two are written by hand in notebooks, the third is in the form of type-written sheets. All accounts are undated, but were written late in his life.

Scope and Contents A volume of songs of Rob Donn Mackay (1714-1778); according to a note at the front, of unknown authorship (folio i), it was taken down from the recitation of the poet, who could not write, ‘by a daughter of the parish Minister, John Thomson, 1763-1809’, (i.e., presumably the Minister of Durness, 1764-1811), possibly Janet (1766-1785). However, the paper of the volume is dated 1813-1815, and this, together with the presence of a lament for Rob Donn in it, suggests that it is a later copy of...

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:...

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Typewritten account beginning "For a long time how, I have had in my mind, writing a sketch of my family and its connections …". 22 pages. The original is loosely inserted into a notebook containing notes and material collected on Morrison family history (entitled on the first page: "Morrison"). This notebook, including the typewritten family history, remains in private hands.

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Partly with further information later added by Morrison in manuscript.

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Morrison bought a continuous run of 101 historical books at this sale, marked as "the property of a gentleman". The volume bears Morrison's bookplate on the front paste-down.