Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Senator J. C. S. Blackburn to Bacon, January 9, 1915
Submits Robert Lincoln's corrections on Gettysburg address & suggests use of text of Hay and Nicolay for Second Inaugural.
Frederick Law Olmsted by Bacon, January 18, 1915
Request for advice on planting of trees along long canal, also how they meet circular row of trees around the monument.
Bacon to Frederick Law Olmsted, January 19, 1915
Copy of letter, suggest distance of 320 feet for trees, also suggests pin oaks for circular row.
Bacon to Royal Cortissoz, February 1, 1915
Copy of letter requesting document for cornerstone.
Royal Cortissoz to Bacon, February 2, 1915
Covering letter for document, suggesting it be printed in Indian ink on parchment (no copy of document).
J. F. Manning (of Colorado-Yule Marble) to Bacon, February 18, 1915
Letter enclosing verses by Arthur Chapman, The Heart-Gift, on the Memorial. Poem enclosed.
Bacon to Senator J. C. S. Blackburn, February 23, 1915
Copy of letter enclosing blue prints of Second Inaugural & Gettysburg address.
Senator J. C. Blackburn to Judge Walter Malone and replies, March 30, April 6 and 8, 1915
Copy of request for poem upon Mr. Lincoln. Copy of note in reply, with verse. Copy of letter of appreciation. All on one page.
Henry B. Rankin to Bacon and reply, April 7 and 9, 1915
Request for information upon Commission's action about Farewell address in Springfield. Lack of funds from present Congress to inscribe this address.
Daniel C. French to Bacon, May 29, 1915
Expresses view that retaining wall of Memorial be of rougher finish than the building. Tells of making sketch models for the statue of Lincoln.