Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, October 13, 1919
Reply, with query as to why Yule marble was not used for the statue.
Bacon to Robert T. Lincoln, October 14, 1919
Copy of reply in which Bacon states that Yule quarries are shut down and company in receivership, also that Yule marble has too much veining for the large block required.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1920
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.
Congressional Record, February 12, 1920
Congressional Record, Feb. 12, 1920, Lincoln's Birthday, together with facsimiles of autograph copy of Gettysburg Address made by President Lincoln for the Soldiers' and Sailors' Fair in 1864 and of a letter by Robert Lincoln about copies of the address.
Stephen H. Olin to Bacon, March 26, 1920
Reports on the Memorial: "a very great impression and is entirely beautiful".
William H. Taft to Bacon, June 14, 1920
Reports that he has asked Mr. Vale to have the dedication postponed because of inability to prepare the grounds.
Bacon to Robert T. Lincoln, October 28, 1920
Copy of letter telling him he is sending copies of The American Architect with illustrated article on the Memorial. Disagrees with a Mr. Bartlett who suggests an altar on which the bust of Lincoln should be the focal point.
Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, November 5, 1920
Thanks for 2 copies of The American Architect.
William H. Taft to Bacon, November 11, 1920
Thanks for article by Glenn Brown.
Bacon to Byrne Hackett, November 4, 1920
Copy of letter, inquiry about a photograph of Lincoln suppoed to have been made by an amateur five days before Lincoln was killed. Asks for corrections to a statement he prepared to send to Robert Lincoln to accompany a copy of the photograph.