Morrison, Hew, 1850-1935 (Librarian, Edinburgh Public Library, Gaelic scholar)
Person
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.
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