Testimonials.
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Documents containing affirmation of person's character or the value of a thing. Specifically, written declarations stating an individual's achievements or the usefulness of a product or service, such as a letter of endorsement.
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Letter of application and testimonials for Hew Morrison for his application to the post of librarian of the Free Public Library, Edinburgh., 1887.
Item
Identifier: Acc.14317/13
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.
Dates:
1887.
Found in:
National Library of Scotland Archives and Manuscripts Division
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Correspondence and papers of Dr Hew Morrison, Gaelic scholar, including extracts from the diary of Rev. Murdo MacDonald, minister of Durness.
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Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library.
Papers concerning Hew Morrison's formal qualifications, his post as librarian and his own library., 1887-ca. 1935.
Series
Identifier: Acc.14317/12-16
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:
1887-ca. 1935.