We regret to see it stated that the three surviving
sisters of the late John Leech, the admirable artist in whom several generations of Englishmen and Englishwomen have found delight, are reduced by advancing age, and the competition of other schools with the school by which hitherto they have maintained themselves, to be dependent on the annuity of 235 granted to each of them by her Majesty, together with a trifling addition from the Vintners' Company to one of them. Lord Aberdare, Dr. Graily Hewitt, and a strong com- mittee, are interesting themselves in raising a fund for the purpose of eking out their very insufficient means of living, and it is believed that amongst the great number of English- men who are grateful to the genius of the brother, there will be found not a few who will think it a privilege instead of a bare duty to soften the hardships of his sisters' old age.
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