Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Bacon to Senator Blackburn, November 14, 1913
Copy of letter telling of his pleasure that many members of the Commission favor Mr. French. Invites the Senator to see the scale plaster model in his N.Y. office and have dinner at the Players Club.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1914
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.
Senator Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, January 3, 1914
Expresses disgust at conduct or lack of action by Secretary of War.
O. Wenderoth, Treasury Department to Bacon and reply, January 3 and 5, 1914
Quotes Shakespeare Henry IV, pt. 2, act 1 on considering the cost of building, with hope that New Year will "waft us closer to the commencement of oeprations." Copy of acknowledgment: "Building troubles originated with the exit from the Garden of Eden."
Senator Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, January 10, 1914
Describes his illness & suggests Bacon attend meeting of Commission.
Robert T. Lincoln to Isaac Markens, February 1, 1914
Copy of letter of acknowlegment of a book Lincoln's Masterpiece, a critique of the Gettysburg address.
William H. Taft to Bacon, February 18, 1914
Letter introducing C. S. Pietro, a sculptor, a potential competitor for the Lincoln statue.
Bacon to William H. Taft, February 25, 1914
Copy in response to above: "I do not favor a competition... French is the best man..."
William H. Taft to Bacon, February 26, 1914
Thanks for photograph of model & invitation to see it.
H. K. Bush-Brown to William H. Taft, March 18, 1914
Request to be considered in a competition for being the sculptor of the Lincoln statue.