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Box 5

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Contains 227 Results:

Bacon to Henry B. Rankin, November 6, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 8
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter notifying him of copies of American Architect being sent. Also tells of making a drawing of the Springfield farewell speech which was rejected by the Commission of Fine Arts. Promises to take up the matter with Mr. Taft.

Dates: November 6, 1920

Bacon to Robert T. Lincoln, Novembre 13, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 9
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter telling of the photograph of his father which he had obtained from the Brick Row Bookshop.

Dates: Novembre 13, 1920

G. C. Scoggin (Encyclopaedia Britannica) to Bacon and reply, November 26, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 10-11
Scope and Contents Inquiry for facts for a supplementary volume: the cost, time of dedication, list of Bacon's works. Copy of reply: "Total cost of the Lincoln Memorial and masonry approaches is approximately $2,594,000. Date of dedication not yet determined. In letter to Scottin Bacon mentioned as "some of the important work I have done: Court of the Four Seasons, Panama-Pacific Exposition. Plan of future extension of Wesleyan University, Whittemore Memorial Bridge, Naugatuck, Conn., Union Square Savings...
Dates: November 26, 1920

Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, December 7, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 12
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Thanks for the photograph of his father, with explanation that it was taken by Alexander Gardner and shows "the happy frame of mind in which my father was in the knowledge that the war was nearly at its end." Cites two books where it is reproduced.

Dates: December 7, 1920

Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, December 7, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 13
Scope and Contents

Congratulations upon the memorial: "can only write you my increased admiration for your magnificent work. The statue is everything that I could desire, and I can not find words to express my gratification..."

Dates: December 7, 1920

Bacon to Mr. Langdon, December 31, 1920

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 12, Item: 14
Scope and Contents

Concerns the lower steps of the approach.

Dates: December 31, 1920

Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1921

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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.

Dates: 1921
Found in: University Archives / Henry Bacon papers / Series V: Lincoln Memorial / Subseries V A: Correspondence

John T. Graves to Bacon, March 21, 1921

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 13, Item: 1
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Expresses sentiment of Commission and others concerned that "ethicaly and legally you are entitled to the commission."

Dates: March 21, 1921

Electus D. Litchfield (architect) to Bacon, March 24, 1921

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 13, Item: 2
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Congratulatory letter: "Nothing would one have otherwise with this monument."

Dates: March 24, 1921

Bacon to Isabelle H. Fitz, May 19, 1921

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 13, Item: 3
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Copy of response to congratulations: "It has been my endeavor to design a structure which will express the reverence we feel fro Abraham Lincoln, and also the majesty of his noble qualities."

Dates: May 19, 1921

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