Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
Royal Cortissoz to Bacon
Regarding his inscription, indicates he has written to "Miss Boardman a long letter embodying all the facts and arguments. She is a life long friend of Taft's and if she takes the matter up with him, as I feel sure she will, for she is a close friend of my wife's and of mine, I do not doubt that he will be favorable.
Royal Cortissoz to Bacon
Letter of appreciation: "It is the final thing that has happened in all my life and I'll never be able to tell you how grateful I am to you" for the acceptance of his inscription on the wall of the Memorial.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1923
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.
Daniel C. French to Bacon, May 14, 1923
Letter expressing regret that he will be unable to be in Washington for Bacon's "recognition": "I hope you will not look on me as a 'slacker," but will pardon this sin of omission with as good grace as you can. It is a grief to me not to be chained to your chariot wheels in your triumphal entry into your own."
Mullgardt to Bacon, May 18, 1923
Congratulatory telegram "Care of the American Institute of Architects." "Congratulations. Put your name on it: otherwise some future crank will set up the cry that Shakespeare did it."
Public Act no. 346 [S. 9449], February 9, 1911
"An act to provide a commission to secure plans and designs for a monument or memorial to the memory of Abraham Lincoln." Printed leaf. Approved 9 February 1911.
Report on Designs for Lincoln Memorial on Potomac Park Site, Submitted by Henry Bacon, Architect, March 22, 1912
3 pages. 7 copies.
Report on Final Design for Lincoln Memorial, Submitted by Henry Bacon, Architect, June 28, 1912
3 pages. 6 copies.
Lincoln Memorial Commission Report, December 5, 1913
Message from the President of the United States... 62d Congress, 3d Session. Senate Document no. 965. December 5, 1912. Referred to the Committee on teh Library an dordered to be printed, with illustrations. Washington, 1913. 41 pp. 2 copies.
Lincoln Memorial Commission "Advertisement, Instructions and Specifications for the Erection of the Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C.", 1913
Lincoln Memorial Commission. "Advertisement, Instructions and Specifications for the Erection of the Lincoln Memorial in Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. In Accordance with the Drawings of Henry Bacon, Architect for the Lincoln Memorial Commission." [1913?], 34 pp.