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Box 5

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Contains 227 Results:

E. F. Concklin to Bacon and reply, August 28 and 29, 1911

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3, Item: 15-16
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Letter from Assistant and Chief Clerk, Office of Public Buildings and Grounds with official notification of Bacon's apointment by Lincoln Memorial Commission on Aug. 10, with payment of 1500.00 a month for 3 months and for such further time as authorized. Also copy of reply, with acceptance of employment.

Dates: August 28 and 29, 1911

Jules Guerin to Bacon, October 8, 1911

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3, Item: 17
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Travel letter from Constantinople

Dates: October 8, 1911

Jules Guerin to Bacon, October 10, 1911

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3, Item: 18
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Travel letter from Constantinople acknowledging a letter from Bacon: "do save the good perspectives for me."

Dates: October 10, 1911

Henry Bacon to W. E. Fulton, December 12, 1911

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 3, Item: 19
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Copy of letter explaining why his plans do not include a memorial road from Washington to Gettysburg

Dates: December 12, 1911

Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1912

 File — Box: 5, Folder: 4
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: 1912
Found in: University Archives / Henry Bacon papers / Series V: Lincoln Memorial / Subseries V A: Correspondence

Glenn Brown to Bacon and reply, February 10 and 12, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 1-2
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Inquiry concerning whether Pope has been requested to make "another drawing in competition...for the Mall site of the Lincoln Memorial." Copy of reply in which he states that President Taft, due to criticism of drawings submitted, requests new designs from Messrs. Pope and Bacon, with additional compensation: "All is fair & above board."

Dates: February 10 and 12, 1912

Glenn Brown to Bacon, March 9, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 3
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Reports that other architects suggest an extension of the rear in the form of a Tee.

Dates: March 9, 1912

Bacon to D. H. Burnham, March 29, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 4
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Copy of letter mentioning that the new drawings would be arranged and a small scale model constructed. Rough sketch included.

Dates: March 29, 1912

Colonel Spencer Cosby to Bacon and reply, April 1 and 17, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 5-6
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Telegram that Lincoln Memorial Com. voted to recommend him as architect with request for appointment. Copy of telegram indicating a call on Friday.

Dates: April 1 and 17, 1912

Royal Cortissoz to Bacon, April 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 7
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Compares Bacon to Keats in the need to be independent of the public's praise, but his own severest critic: "no external praise can touch your own sense of what is right and fine."

Dates: April 1912

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