• Title
  Item 18: Miniature daily devotional, ca. 1851-1860 / from the papers of George Ernest Morrison
• Call number
  SAFE/R 645/Item h
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  ca. 1851-1860
• Type of material
  Objects
• Reference code
  1206211
• Physical Description
  1 book - leather bound - 3.6 x 2.9 cm
  
• Scope and Content
  This miniature book contains a bible verse selected from the Old and New Testaments of the King James Bible for each day of the year. It was presented to George Ernest Morrison in March 1884 when he was 22 years old by his youngest sister Hilda (Evelyn Hilda Morrison) who was six years old. Hilda gave it to her brother just before he travelled to Edinburgh for surgery to remove some spear fragments (see Item 13 in this series). It has a wallet-type clasp, approximately 120 pages, and gilded page edges. Its title ‘Small Rain upon the Tender Herb’ is taken from a verse from Deuteronomy 32:2. It is the thirty-fourth edition, published by the Religious Tract Society c. 1851-1860 at their location at 56, Paternoster Row, London.
• Access Conditions
  
  Access via appointment
• Description source
  
  Information on history of Religious Tract Society history at Paternoster Street provided by Emma Thompson, Curatorial Intern (Books and Manuscripts), Royal Collection Trust, Windsor Castle, Berkshire on 9 November 2016.
• General note
  
  Item description by Lisa Chavez, Intern, Research & Discovery Branch, December 2016
  Digital order no:Album ID : 1323798
• Signatures / Inscriptions
  
  On fly leaf: "Ernest / with / Hilda's Love / Geelong College / March 1884."
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Morrison, George Ernest, 1862-1920
  
• Subject
  Devotional calendars
  Presbyterian Church--Prayers and devotions.
  Miniature books--Specimens.
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE1209588

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