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Cemetery, a headstone such as tlie author wished ou the 

 spot where he reiiuested to be buried, and in the same year 

 published a Memorial Pamphlet containing the address of 

 Major George B. Halstead, president of the Newark As- 

 sociation. 



A few years ago, looking through a catalogue of the 

 Anderson Galleries, 1 noticed several Forester items, the 

 property of J. Charles Davis, a character known the world 

 over as advance agent of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and 

 Barnum's Circus, and a great lover of field sports. At the 

 sale I secured one of the Memorial pamphlets, and was 

 gratified to find on the fore-page : "Presented to J. Charles 

 Davis of the New York Sunday Herald at the Cabin 

 Camp, near Greenport, L. I., June 21, 1893, by Isaac 

 McLellan." In that year Mr. Davis, who was a regular 

 contributor to the New York Herald, had written an 

 article on "The Lonely Grave of a Famous Author" after 

 a visit to the grave of Frank Forester, which was fittingly 

 illustrated by the Herald. This was interleaved in the 

 Memorial and in Mr. Davis's autograph was written : 

 "Printed Sunday, November 26th, 1893. Caused much 

 correspondence after publication," and pressed between 

 the leaves was a leaf of ivy plucked from a vine growing on 

 Forester's tombstone and brought from the English home 

 of the Herberts by Margaret Herbert Mather ("Morgan 

 Herbert"). * 



♦Full size sketch from Ivy Leaf. 



