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1899/09/21
Foster, Warren W., fl. 1899
To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: "Reception of Admiral Dewey, by the City of New York."
Designates Ward as a member of the "Special Committee" meeting Dewey and escorting him to City Hall.
GLC06343.267
1899/09/30
Nemetz, Charles, fl. 1899
To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: criticism of Ward for making a female and not a male angel on the Dewey Arch.
Purple stamp on p. 2: "J.C. DeHaven, Druggist and News Dealer, Council Bluffs, Iowa."
GLC06343.268
1899/10/02
Belmont, August, fl. 1899
To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: support for proposition to replicate the Dewey Arch at Madison Square and contempt for "newspaper advertising."
Discusses Dewey Arch and Dewey reception; plans for replicating the Arch in Madison Square; details of the progress of the Dewey Arch sculpture; lists military heroes (John Paul Jones, Farragut, etc.) who might merit being represented in sculptural...
GLC06343.269
1899/10/07
Eaton, D. Cady, fl. 1899
To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: congratulations to Ward on his artistic endeavors involved with the creation of the Dewey Arch. [Carbon Copy]
Header reads: "D. CADY EATON, Counselor at Law, New Haven, Conn."
GLC06343.270
1899/11/04
Church, William C., fl. 1899
To: John Q.A. Ward. Re: the possibility of reproducing the Dewey Arch into marble, and costs associated with it. [Carbon Copy]
Church, a representative of The Citizens Committee for Perpetuating the Dewey Arch, writes to Ward about the possibility of reproducing the Dewey Arch into a permanent form [marble].
GLC06343.271
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