A written recommendation.
1827. “Have you got any blank recommends for scholars?” “No, sir; my recommends are all prizes.”—Mass. Spy, Feb. 28: from the Dover Republican.
1833. Sambo gets a ride every year, one side o’ tother; stuffiest nigger ever you see tho’! Wunt vote for nobody ’t he don’t like, no matter who gives him a recommend.—John Neal, ‘The Down-Easters,’ i. 69.
1833. I want you should give me a letter of recommend to Philadelphy, as I ruther guess I shall go back that way.—Id., i. 80.
1851. Let our Elders carry their letters of recommend in bold relief.—Frontier Guardian, Nov. 28.
1852. I had not been very particular in seeking recommends as I went along; but I had a recommend from Governor [Brigham] Young: he told the folks I was an honorable man.—Elder John Taylor at the Mormon Tabernacle, Aug. 22: ‘Journal of Discourses,’ i. 20.
1894. If one could ask “Old Jim” about that saddle of mine, I think he would give it an autograph recommend, for he finished the trip with the hide of his back all there.—F. Remington, ‘In the Sierra Madre with the Punches,’ Harper’s Mag., lxxxviii. 350–1 (Feb.). (N.E.D.)
1907. The present compiler, in visiting the Mormon Tabernacle &c., in Salt Lake City, presented a letter from one of the Federal Judges: on which the custodian remarked, “That’s a good recommend.”
