Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
H. A. Vale to Bacon, July 14, 1917
Concerns designs of Mr. Guerin for the mural decorations & Vale's writing to members of the Commission.
Daniel C. French to Bacon, October 24, 1917
Indicates that he made slight changes (an inch or two) in the final plaster cast.
Bacon to Daniel C. French, October 25, 1917
Copy of letter which contained blueprints for French's file.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1918
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, February 8, 1918
Indicates that his supplemental contract for 43,400.00 was signed Dec. 31, 1917. French's original contract was for 45,000.
Bacon to Robert T. Lincoln, April 22, 1918
An invitation to visit Mr. Guerin's studio (copy of letter). One of the two decorations was finished. Allegorical figures symbolize th eideas in the Gettysburg and Second Inaugural speeches.
Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, April 23, 1918
Indicates a delay of at least two weeks before he can go to N.Y. to see Guerin's work due to his moing out of one house in Washington into another. Expresses surprise that the French statue is to be in marble rather than bronze, but he was very mch pleased with the model.
Robert T. Lincoln to Bacon, April 26, 1918
Expresses gratitude for a description of the statue and "that the substitution of marble for bronze is an improvement."
H. A. Vale to Bacon, May 22, 1918
Request that Bacon arrange an interview with Josephine Braendle, an artist and reporter, with Miss Longman, "the only woman who has done work on the Lincoln Memorial."
President William H. Taft to Bacon, December 31, 1918
Thanks for letter and souvenir of the Lincoln Memorial to be used as a paper weight.