XXII INTRODUCTORY CHAPTERS 



Melton Mowbray in 1896 to hunt with the Quorn, the 

 Pytchley and the Warwickshire Hunts. 



Through an interest in Forester articles appearing in 

 the Sportsmen's Review .1 began to correspond with Mr. 

 Pond, the editor, who has done more than any other man 

 in America to keep alive the name and memory of Herbert. 

 Encouraging my enthusiasm, he advised me where 

 books could be bought, pamphlets obtained and other 

 material gathered, so that from an occasional buyer I 

 became an ardent collector. About 1909 or 1910, while on 

 a visit to John E. Madden, the Master of Hamburg Place 

 at Lexington, spending a few days in the Blue Grass 

 region looking over the Castleton Stud made famous by 

 the white and blue spots of James R. Keene, the "wizard 

 of Wall Street'', and inspecting Elmendorf, the vast es- 

 tablishment of James B. Haggin, "the copper king," I tar- 

 ried for an evening at Cincinnati that I might meet Mr. 

 Pond, who had resided there for nearly twenty years while 

 connected with the Review. 



No introduction was necessary, for in a moment, bound 

 together by mutual love of Henry William Herbert, we 

 were comparing notes and I found I was a novice beside 

 the man who for forty years had made Forester a study. 

 But with the generosity of the true collector he pointed 

 out new highways and byways of Foresteriana which I had 

 never traveled, so that for five or six years after, while at 

 home or in England or Ireland I was continually im- 

 proving my collection, aided by him through various 

 channels. 



Another great lover of Herbert was Isaac McLellan, who 

 was eighty-eight years of age in 1893, and who wrote a dedi- 

 catory i^oem to be delivered at the unveiling of a monument 

 to be erected to Forester at Greenwood Lake, near War- 

 wick. But the funds not forthcoming the monument was 

 never erected. In 1876 the "Newark Herbert Association" 

 and the "Frank Forester Fund Memorial Association" 

 had been formed, the latter having as its president Dr. N. 

 Rowe of the American Field, who has done so much to 

 preserve the blood lines of English setters by his Stud 

 Book. The members of the Newark Herbert Association on 

 May 19th, 1876 — the eighteenth anniversary of Herbert's 

 burial, — erected in Newark, near "The Cedars," on the 

 right hank of the beautiful Passaic in Mount Pleasant 



