78 StoliezTca Ilemorial. [Apktl, 



From Me. F. Dat, dated lUh January, 1876. 



Dear Sir, — A meeting o£ the Committee of the Stoliczka Memorial 

 Fund was held in London on Wednesday last (January 12th) when your 

 letters o£ December were laid before it. 



It was annoimced that the sculptor Mr. Geflowski was stiU williag to 

 undertake the bust at the terms formerly communicated by Mr. G-rote. 



It was unanimously resolved to place the execution of the bust in Mr. 

 Geflowski's hands. 



Should there be sufficient funds there wiU be no difficulty in obtaining 

 a pedestal of the description desired by the Calcutta Committee. 



'From Me. Geote, dated January \Mli. 



" Day and Duka met at my rooms here yesterday and we decided on giv- 

 ing Geflowski the commission for Stoliczka's biist. He undertakes it for 

 100 guineas of which I shall have to pay him a moiety on completion of 

 his model. Geflowski's reputation is rising daily and he has been selected 

 over the heads of Woolner and Noble to make the Fairbairn statue for Man- 

 chester. This is a job of 850 guineas. As Day is leaving London he has 

 asked me to do his share of the Committee's work. He insists on making 

 no charge on the fund for his printing and other charges. I shall have to 

 discount your bill on the Oriental Bank should Geflowski complete his 

 model before the 25th March. This he will probably do, though his work 

 will have to wait till Dickinson can sjDare the photos." 



" As regards the sums collected here, your memo, enclosed in said let- 

 ter makes me out to have received £96, whereas I have only realised £76, 

 apparently nothing more will be coming in here." 



" As to the pedestal, there wiU be no difficulty in providing one here if 

 you can afford the expense. Lately I paid £18 for a pedestal, the freight 

 i&c, would amount to perhajDS £5 more. Oldham, I should think, would sug- 

 gest to you some local material which would connect his friend's name and 

 memorywith his professional labours and which would be less costly than 

 a pedestal dispatched from this country." 



From De. G. E. Dobson, dated 19t7i February. 



" As I came through London I saw Mr. Dickinson who is painting Sto- 

 liczka's j)ortrait : it is nearly finished, so nearly that he had only to paint in 

 some accessory things when I saw it.* I was much pleased with it, and I 

 think the subscribers will also be well pleased. The bust I did not see, the 

 model was not completed but soon will be, I will endeavour to go to town 

 to see it. I would suggest that Woodbury or Carbon-type somewhat en- 

 larged copies of the photograph from which the j)ainting is being made, be 



* In a letter just received from Mr. Grote, dated 30tli March, he says that the 

 picture is finished and is undergoing visits of criticism from memhers of the Committee 

 and other fiiends of Stoliczka. 



