Testimonial letter for Joseph W. Mellor

Date

4 May, 1898

Identifier

Mellor Papers, Box 7, folder 2

Publisher

Unpublished

Abstract

George Malcolm Thomson lectured in chemistry at the King Edward Technical College and was the secretary and superintendent until 1898. Mellor came to Thomson’s attention when he attended his night classes in 1889. He arranged a scholarship and time off from Sargood’s for Mellor to attend University. This letter of recommendation was written for Mellor by Thomson who enthusiastically claimed of Mellor ‘he’s the coming man’.

Files

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Citation

George M. Thomson, “Testimonial letter for Joseph W. Mellor,” ourheritage.ac.nz | OUR Heritage, accessed March 29, 2024, https://otago.ourheritage.ac.nz/items/show/8894.