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

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

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:...

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

Scope and Contents

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.

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.