DEAR WELLS,--The list for the Memorial Committee is practically complete, and though it is not in every particular the list which you or I might have drawn up, it is a good one, and as I told you I think in a previous note, I have not liked to interfere too much, as Agnew has so zealously taken the work on himself. I meant to send you the list, but have cleverly come away from home (I am writing at the Senior United Service Club) without it. I have of course asked Agnew to add his own name; for the Academy I have proposed to him the four Trustees--not as Trustees, but because they offer a ready-made group in a body where none is afore or after--Sir J. Gilbert, Linton, and Coutts Lindsay will complete the artistic section for the present. The next step, as I have suggested to Agnew, is to get at the Dean of St. Paul's--this I have offered to do. A chairman will have to be appointed; I should suggest, or rather have suggested, the D. of Cleveland--if he joins; I believe his answer has not yet come in. And there must be a banker: then a letter from the Committee should appear in the _Times_ inviting adhesions and subscriptions, to be published from time to time: is all this in harmony with your own view? Are you not afraid that the moment when "everybody" (for _our_ purposes it _is_ everybody) is leaving town or has left it--I go myself in a few days--is a very bad one? Many people lose sight of their _Times_, or would not write from the country or foreign parts. How would it strike you to wait a month or two, having now laid the foundation? It is a nice point. There are pros, but there are also cons. With all good wishes, yours sincerely, FRED LEIGHTON. You have seen no doubt in your _Times_ that we mean to exhibit our lamented friend's work in a worthy manner. _P.P.S._--By-the-bye, _S. Kensington_ ought to be represented. I will ask Agnew to write to T. Armstrong. [Illustration: "BACCHANTE." 1892 By permission of Messrs. Henry Graves & Co., the owners of the Copyright] [Illustration: STUDY IN OILS FOR "BACCHANTE." 1892 By permission of Mrs. Stewart Hodgson] 2 HOLLAND PARK ROAD, KENSINGTON, W., _November 2, 1892_. DEAR WELLS,--Best thanks for your cheque and kind note. You will be glad to hear that the removal is going on capitally. I did not wait for the full money-promise; I had _determined_ to do the thing, and I set it going on my personal guarantee when we were £300 short of the full sum. _Now_ we have the money, young Lehmann munificently sending a cheque _for that amount_.