| Description | ‘Be pleased to inform Mr Boulton that I was unable to make his Subscription in Aid of Mr Wilberforce’s Canvas fifty guineas in the first instance because my first payment of twenty guineas each for himself, Mr Watt, Mr. R. Boulton & Mr. Watt junr. Had been return’d and the return printed & published – however as many of the first Subscribers have thought it expedient to subscribe a second time I have to day paid in to Mr Thornton’s list thirty guineas as ‘Mr Boulton’s second subscription’. |