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Subscription lists.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Lists or records of subscriptions and subscribers.

Found in 78 Collections and/or Records:

Portion of the autobiography of George Miller, bookseller in Haddington and Dunbar, covering the years 1803 to 1818.

 File
Identifier: MS.5409
Scope and Contents

Some leaves are missing at the beginning and end of the volume.

Inserted are some letters to George Miller, printed prospectuses, subscription sheets, etc.

Dates: [1818, or after.]

Printed papers, including speeches, account of processions, and subscription lists, relating to the All India King Edward Memorial, Delhi., 1911.

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Identifier: MS.12799
Scope and Contents From the Series: Gilbert John Elliot Murray Kynynmound (1845- 1914), who was styled Viscount Melgund from 1859 and succeeded as Earl of Minto in 1891. He served in the army in the Russo-Turkish War, 1877, in Afghanistan, 1879, and in Egypt, 1882; from 1883 to 1886 he was Military Secretary to the 5th Marquess of Lansdowne, Governor-General of Canada, from 1898 to 1904 he was himself Governor-General of Canada, and from 1905 to 1910 he was Viceroy of India. He was also much involved in local affairs,...
Dates: 1911.

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.

 Item
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.

‘Record of Subscriptions & Payments in the County of Berwick in aid of Government towards the Defence of the Country', a ledger kept by Alexander Christie of Grueldykes.

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Identifier: MS.964
Scope and Contents

The ledger contains subscription-lists of the various parishes and copies of relevant correspondence 1798-1802, with loose letters, 1799-1803, 1810-1811.

Dates: 1798-1811.

Subscribers' list for John Mackenzie's 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa' (1844)

 Item
Identifier: Acc.13841
Content Description

A bound volume containing the signatures and addresses of 291 subscribers to Mackenzie's Gaelic history of the Jacobite Rising, 'Eachdraidh a' Phrionnsa', first published in Edinburgh in 1844.

Dates: ca 1843-1844