Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, July 18, 1912
Acknowledgment of a book of photographs of the designs
Brand Whitlock, Mayor of Toledo to Bacon, August 2, 1912
Acknowledges photograph of design and reports.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1913
232 items. Important correspondents include William Howard Taft, Robert T. Lincoln, Daniel Chester French, Royal Cortissoz, Jules Guerin, and Senators S. M. Cullom, J. C. S. Blackburn, and Henry S. Rankin.
Jules Guerin and Thomas Hastings to Bacon, January 22, 1913
Telegram of good wishes
Bacon to Colonel Cosby and response, January 30, 1913
Copy of telegram acknowledging Cosby's (below). Telegram indicating Congress approved Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park & requesting Bacon to attend meeting with the President at the White House with the Lincoln Memorial Commission.
Thomas Hastings to Bacon, February 1, 1913
Congratulations.
Cass Gilbert to Bacon, February 3, 1913
Congratulations: "Your design is masterly and superb. It is worthy of the place and subject, and will prove to be one of the greatest things of our time, for it has the qualities of serenity and rare beauty..."
Unknown to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, February 3, 1913
Copy of unsigned letter telling how the writer requests not having known Lincoln, as had Sen. Cullom.
Bacon to Thomas Hastings, February 3, 1913
Copy of response to congratulations, with enthusiasm of overwhelming vote in the House: "The Gettysburg road advocates were swept into ash cans!"
Bacon to A. R. Kimball, February 11, 1913
Copy of response to congratulations.