Box 5
Contains 227 Results:
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.
Daniel C. French to Bacon, June 28, 1915
Requests Bacon to visit Glendale, describes statue as 12 feet in height, seated. Asks what material is designated for pedestal, date of completion of memorial.
Bacon to Henry Hering and reply, October 18 and 19, 1915
Copy of letter enclosing 200.00 for modeling the wreath for the Memorial. Acknowledgment of check.
William W. Harts (Colonel, U.S. Army) to Bacon, October 23, 1915
Reply to Bacon's comments on the government contract with D. C. French. Commission had fixed 50,000 to provide the statue and pediment, with $45,000 to Mr. French, with $2,700 the percentage to Bacon and a balance of $2,300 for traveling expenses and the like for representatives of the Commission.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, 1916
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.
Subseries V A: Correspondence, February 5, 1916
General dimension of Lincoln Memorial.
Henry B. Rankin to Bacon, February 25, 1916
Request for cut of a vignette of the Memorial to be supplied Putnam's for use in Rankin's book of personal recollections: Abraham Lincoln the First American.
Henry B. Rankin to Bacon, May 2, 1916
Discusses position of Springfield Farewell Address in the Memorial & suggests paragraphs in speeches be indicated.
Bacon to President William H. Taft, May 9, 1916
Copy of note enclosing photograph of approaches to Memorial.