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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 46 Collections and/or Records:

Miscellaneous educational, cultural and literary papers of the Chalmers family of Auldbar., 1758-1867.

 File
Identifier: MS.15508
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows: (i) Papers concerning the classical, literary and historical education of Patrick Chalmers (died 1824) (folio 1); (ii) Notes of Patrick Chalmers, Advocate, on Roman law (folio 31); (iii) Papers concerning the legal career of Patrick Chalmers, including his admission papers to the Inner Temple (1758) and the Faculty of Advocates (1762-1763; admitted 1764) (folio 54); (iv) Miscellaneous classical exercises (folio 76); (v) Testimonials in favour of, and academic...
Dates: 1758-1867.

Miscellaneous papers of and concerning Professor Thomas Stewart Traill, and his family., 1670-[circa 1890].

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.19399-19405
Scope and Contents From the Series: Thomas Traill was born in Orkney in 1781 of the family of Traill of Tirlot and the collection includes miscellaneous genealogical, legal and historial material relating to Orkney. He graduated in medicine in the University of Edinburgh in 1802 and by 1803 had settled in practice in Liverpool where he became a prominent figure being prime mover in the foundation of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool of which he was first Secretary, and assisting in the foundation of the Royal...
Dates: 1670-[circa 1890].

Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill., 1842-1961, undated.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: MSS.26256-26259
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1842-1961, undated.

Miscellaneous papers of Florence Marian McNeill including testimonials, newspaper cuttings about contemporary women authors, and other material., 1899-1961, undated.

 File
Identifier: MS.26256
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Born in Orkney, Florence Marian McNeill worked in London for the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene from 1913 to 1917. She wrote and lectured on a variety of subjects, and was an active member of the Scottish National Party and the Saltire Society, but is best known for her books on Scottish cookery and folklore.

Dates: 1899-1961, undated.

Miscellaneous personal charters relating to the Dundas family., 1706-?1865.

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Ch.B.1340-1349
Scope and Contents

Included are: burgess tickets; an election return, 1722; a patent, 1854, concerning the manufacture of cannon; and, a public testimonial, ?1865, to George Dundas, later Lieutenant-Governor of St Vincent, from the inhabitants of Prince Edward Island.

Dates: 1706-?1865.

Papers concerning Hector MacIver's career., 1934-1961.

 File
Identifier: MS.26279
Scope and Contents

The papers include material on Hector MacIver's naval service, 1941-1945, testimonials and applications for teaching posts.

Dates: 1934-1961.

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.

Papers concerning Hugh MacLeod's role in the 1745 rebellion., 1745.

 File
Identifier: MS.19296
Scope and Contents

Included in the papers are testimonials for him and his father, Donald, 1st of Geanies, copies of letters of Duncan Forbes of Culloden, Lord President of the Court of Session, and an ‘Account of the Skirmish at Inverurie’, all of 1745.

Dates: 1745.

Papers of and concerning the 2nd Earl of Minto., 1835-[circa 1840.]

 File
Identifier: MS.12064
Scope and Contents The contents are as follows. (i) Notes and papers, 1836-1839, concerning naval operations against the slave trade from West Africa (folio 1); (ii) The Countess of Minto's list of dinners given at the Admiralty, 1835-1839, with names of guests (folio 62); (iii) Copy of a circular, January 1838, regulating the entry of 1st Class Volunteers to the Navy (folio 68); (iv) Reports and other papers, 1835-1836, relating to the Russian Fleet and its naval establishments on the Black Sea, and to the...
Dates: 1835-[circa 1840.]

Personal and financial papers of Alexander Low Bruce, containing testimonials, receipts and expenses., 1858-1860, 1884-1893, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.11777/39-41
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Includes papers concerning Bruce's directorships of the African Lakes Company and the Imperial British East Africa Company, and to Liberal Unionist organisations and activities in Scotland.

The papers, originally contained in a mahogany filing cabinet with alphabetically labelled drawers, is mostly, but not exclusively, Bruce’s personal, rather than his business correspondence, mainly from 1885-1893 and largely concerned with his political and African interests.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1858-1860, 1884-1893, undated.

Personal correspondence and papers of Alastair Trevor Clark., [1923]-2005.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12598/11-29
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

The papers concern Alastair Trevor Clark’s writing and colonial duties from the beginning of his career in 1949 until the end of his professional career in 1990. They relate to colonial relations within Nigeria and other countries including Hong Kong and the Solomon Islands. The papers comprise letters, manuscript, articles, printed material, maps, government documents, despatches, press cuttings, photographs and reprints of articles.

Dates: [1923]-2005.

Personal papers, including correspondence, of Robert Blair Wilkie and his family., 1932-2001.

 Series
Identifier: Acc.12765/29-42
Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection consists of correspondence, publications and papers of Robert Blair Wilkie (1913–1998) and his family. Robert Blair Wilkie was the curator of the Old Glasgow Museum 1965-1998 (formerly known as the People’s Palace Museum). Active member of the Scottish Nationalist movement (joined Scottish Nationalist Association under John MacCormick in 1937), in 1945 he was the SNP candidate in West Renfrewshire, and in the following year he was appointed editor of the Scots Independent...
Dates: 1932-2001.

State papers collected by Sir James Balfour of Denmilne, volumes 1-13: letters and papers on various topics., 1560-1641, undated.

 Series
Identifier: Adv.MS.33.1.1 (i)-(xiii)
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection is known both as the `Denmilne State Papers` and the `Denmilne Collection`. Less formally it is often referred to as the `Denmilne Manuscripts`.

Dates: 1560-1641, undated.

Testimonials and appreciations of Edwin Muir and his work., 1935-1960.

 File
Identifier: MS.19670
Scope and Contents

The papers include a copy o Edwin Muir's report on his work in Prague in 1947 (folio 14), and a collection of presscuttings, 1949-1960 (folio 95).

Dates: 1935-1960.

Twenty-five volumes relating to cup-finals, semi-finals and testimonials of Hibernian Football Club., 14 October 1963-14 October 1991.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.10691/54
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

Correspondence, drafts, notes, and working papers of Philip D Thomson of and concerning '100 Years of Hibs' (Edinburgh, 1975), being the centenary history of Hibernian Football Club co-written with Gerald Docherty. With circa 1000 Hibernian Football Club match programmes, photographs, 27 scrapbooks, fanzines and epherma, 1933-93, of and relating to Hibernian FC and Scottish football in general.

Dates: 14 October 1963-14 October 1991.

Typescript testimonial to Alexander Paterson from the people of Hebron, 1921; an envelope of newspaper cuttings; and a typescript review of William Ewing's biography., 1921, N.d.

 Item
Identifier: Acc.4499/7
Scope and Contents From the Collection: Alexander Paterson qualified as a doctor at Edinburgh in 1885. He spent a few years in London, Cairo and Aden, before entering on his main work as a medical missionary of the United Free Church of Scotland at Hebron in Palestine in 1893. He remained there until the station was handed over to the Church Missionary Society in 1922, when he retired to Edinburgh. He died in 1940. His only published work is the posthumous 'Jesus meets Paul, a duologue in Paradise', Glasgow, [1942]. There is a...
Dates: 1921, N.d.