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Proposals for raising a subscription among Judges and Members of the Faculty of Advocates, former pupils of David Hume as Professor of Scots Law, with a view to procuring a memorial to him on his retirement from that office.
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Identifier: MS.2976
Scope and Contents
The proposal is signed by fifty-two subscribers, including Sir Walter Scott. Chantrey was asked to execute a bust of Hume, but was unable to undertake the commission (see Scott's letter to Chantrey of 7 September 1822, and note, in the Centenary Edition of his letters).
Dates:
?1822.