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Box 5

 Container

Contains 227 Results:

Bacon to Harvey M. Watts, May 22, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 19
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter acknowledging the poem and indicating where he might obtain a photograph of the French statue of Lincoln.

Dates: May 22, 1922

Bacon to Colonel John T. Graves, May 25, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 20
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter requesting a copy of Mr. Markham's poem.

Dates: May 25, 1922

Bacon to Colonel John T. Graves, May 25, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 21
Scope and Contents

Copy of letter requesting that recognition of Royal Cortissoz for the inscription carved on the wall over the statue of Lincoln be made in the description of the Memorial. "Mr. Cortissoz is the art and literary editor of the 'New York Tribune'".

Dates: May 25, 1922

Colonel John T. Graves to Bacon, May 26, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 22
Scope and Contents

Letter enclosed original copy of Markham poem (not with the letter now) and promise to comment on Cortissoz's contribution.

Dates: May 26, 1922

Colonel John T. Graves to Bacon, May 27, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 23
Scope and Contents

Expresses concern that he failed to enclose Markham poem and is enclosing a copy (not present).

Dates: May 27, 1922

Bacon to William H. Taft, May 28, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 24
Scope and Contents Copy of letter enclosing copy of program and expressing appreciation to Mr. Taft's handling the Commission: "I am very proud to have worked under you with others on the Lincoln Memorial and feel that we have produced a majestic nobel structure that breathes reverence and honor to the memory of Abraham Lincoln. All of the men engaged in teh work have vied with each other in doing their best, and a fine spirit has prevailed among them from teh beginning to the end of the work. I wish to...
Dates: May 28, 1922

Robert W. De Forest to Bacon, May 31, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 25
Scope and Contents

Letter of congratulation: "To me it is the most beautiful monument in the world."

Dates: May 31, 1922

Bacon to Colonel John T. Graves, June 8, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 26
Scope and Contents Copy of letter requesting copies of addresses at the dedication by Chief Justice Taft and Dr. Moton. Expresses satisfaction "your warm and affective advocacy of the dedicatory inscription as written by Cortissoz... I think the bigness of the men handling this project was then show all along the line." Reminisces about the ceremony: "It would have been better, however, had the Grand Army exercises been confined to the presentation of the colors alone and, of course, the wicked air-plane...
Dates: June 8, 1922

Margaret Shanks to Bacon, June 19, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 27
Scope and Contents

Encloses a poem, "Lincoln Memorial Dedication," May 30th, 1922, with request that Bacon draw a design of the Memorial or its pillars for publication with the poem. Includes poem.

Dates: June 19, 1922

Edgar R. Harlan (Curator, Historical Department of Iowa) to Bacon, June 19, 1922

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 14, Item: 28
Scope and Contents

Congratulatory letter requesting verbatim report of the program in Washington.

Dates: June 19, 1922

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