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Michael Bland, Esq., F.R.S. : ' The Walton 

 and Cotton Club, to which I am the secretary, 

 adopting the idea suggested in your intro- 

 ductory essay, have resolved to institute an 

 immediate inquiry into the condition of the 

 insufficient monument to the memory of 

 Honest Izaak in Winchester Cathedral, with 

 the view of taking some steps toward the 

 erection of a memorial more worthy of the 

 man, and more honourable to those who 

 delight in that recreation which he has so 

 beautifully pourtrayed.' Whatever may have 

 hitherto obstructed the above expressed in- 

 tention, I still feel perfectly satisfied that it 

 will be yet carried into effect. One gentleman, 

 I was credibly informed, offered to put down 

 200 guineas to commence the work. But 

 let a one guinea subscription be set on foot, 

 and the lovers of literature and angling will 

 carry it in a summer's day ! The Dean of 

 Winchester, I understood, to have expressed 

 himself delighted that an honour, so justly 

 due, should be paid to him as the ' Historian 

 of the Church.' " 



But it was not until 1878 that a marble bust 



