Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Royal Cortissoz to Bacon, April 1912
Compares Bacon to Keats in the need to be independent of the public's praise, but his own severest critic: "no external praise can touch your own sense of what is right and fine."
D. H. Burnham to Bacon, April 2, 1912
"Your arrangement is all right, as shown in the sketch you enclosed."
Colonel Spencer Cosby to Bacon, April 12, 1912
Resolution of Lincoln Memorial Com. to grant payment to Bacon and John Russell Pope the balance of their accounts, making a total of twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Selection of design to come Tuesday.
Bacon to Colonel Cosby, April 15, 1912
Copy of letter of thanks & acknowledgment.
Gutzon Borglum to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, May 26, 1912
Copy of letter with his ideas of the interior of a temple & request for an interview.
Bacon to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, June 1, 1912
Copy of letter responding to Borglum's, replying to latter's statement tha this plan was a "Greek temple with Lincoln Memorial on the door mat."
Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, June 2, 1912
Describes conversation with the President concerning sending the Borglum letter to Bacon. President felt that Bacon as "the selected artist" should have everything submitted to him.
Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, June 4, 1912
"Your ideas are sound, and especialy so in reference to not having too much of a jumble in connection with Lincoln..."
Cass Gilbert to Bacon, June 12, 1912
Expression of confidence: "You are so generous in listening to comment and criticism...do not let it sway you too much."
Bacon to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, June 17, 1912
Copy of letter indicating the preparation of new drawings and a model to show exact relation of Lincoln Memorial to Washington Monument