Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907 to Mr. Kennard

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Type
Letters
Date
15 July 1892
Author/Creator
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907
Title
to Mr. Kennard
Place Written
New York, New York
Pagination
2 p. : docket ; Height: 20.1 cm, Width: 12.6 cm
Primary time period
Rise of Industrial America, 1877-1900
Sub-Era
The American Civil War

Saint-Gaudens, a noted Gilded Age sculptor, discusses an inscription with Kennard (possibly Martin P. Kennard, a Boston abolitionist and political reformer). States that the inscription, designated for a Boston monument honoring Robert Gould Shaw, is too complicated. Expresses hope that he can persuade John Murray Forbes, a Boston philanthropist and chairman of the Shaw monument committee, to endorse a simpler inscription. Very fragile with several torn creases.

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