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LEAVES FROM MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY. 837
bishops of Armagh and Dublin, the Dukes of Buccleuch
and Argyll, with many of the nobility, and other
eminent and representative persons. From the dean
I received, on the 13th April 1870, the following
note :
" Dr Chalmers' monument is safe as far as the stakte is con-
cerned, as we see our way to £2000. But the kirk sessions are
only just beginning to move, and they will he productive. We
have an excellent committee. The address signed E. B. R was
written, small corrections excepted, by thy servant E. B. R.
One thing has been a great pleasure in the Chalmers work,
the most agreeable intercourse it has brought on with the
committee."
In the spring of 1872 the fund had reached nearly
£4000; it was augmented afterwards. The com-
mittee intrusted the execution of the monument to
the eminent sculptor, Mr John Steele, who informs
me that it is ''far advanced towards completion." It
will consist of a bronze colossal statue on a pedestal
of Aberdeen gi'anite, and will be erected on a most
appropriate site in the new town of Edinburgh.*
The Grampian Club was joined in 1869 by the
Marquis of Bute, the Earl of Dalhousie, the Earl of
Glasgow, the Earl of Eosslyn, Mr Home Drummond
of Blair Drummond, and other notable persons. On
the resignation of the original secretary in January
1870, I was appointed as his honorary successor. I
was previously elected general editor. I had held
* Dean Ramsay died on the 27th December 1872. I had the satisfaction
of paying a tribute to his memory in a small volume of "Memorials and
Recollections."
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