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Box 5

 Container

Contains 227 Results:

D. H. Burnham to Bacon, April 2, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 8
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"Your arrangement is all right, as shown in the sketch you enclosed."

Dates: April 2, 1912

Colonel Spencer Cosby to Bacon, April 12, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 9
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Resolution of Lincoln Memorial Com. to grant payment to Bacon and John Russell Pope the balance of their accounts, making a total of twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Selection of design to come Tuesday.

Dates: April 12, 1912

Bacon to Colonel Cosby, April 15, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 10
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Copy of letter of thanks & acknowledgment.

Dates: April 15, 1912

Gutzon Borglum to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, May 26, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 11
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Copy of letter with his ideas of the interior of a temple & request for an interview.

Dates: May 26, 1912

Bacon to Senator Shelby M. Cullom, June 1, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 12
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Copy of letter responding to Borglum's, replying to latter's statement tha this plan was a "Greek temple with Lincoln Memorial on the door mat."

Dates: June 1, 1912

Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, June 2, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 13
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Describes conversation with the President concerning sending the Borglum letter to Bacon. President felt that Bacon as "the selected artist" should have everything submitted to him.

Dates: June 2, 1912

Shelby M. Cullom to Bacon, June 4, 1912

 Item — Box: 5, Folder: 4, Item: 14
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"Your ideas are sound, and especialy so in reference to not having too much of a jumble in connection with Lincoln..."

Dates: June 4, 1912