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Title |
Copy of a letter from Jacob Bigelow to Samuel Gridley Howe re: Otis Statue, December 23rd, 1857. |
Creator |
Mount Auburn Cemetery |
Date |
1857 Dec 23 |
Scope & Content |
Handwritten copy of a letter from President Jacob Bigelow to Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe regarding the James Otis Statue, dated December 12th, 1857. Thomas Crawford, sculptor of the Otis Statue, had nearly completed it before dying in London some two months previous. Howe and Crawford were brothers-in-law. Bigelow wrote to Howe in the capacity of Chairman of the Statue Committee and informed him that the statue was being finished by a sculptor in Italy, that the Cemetery would pay the remaining half of the late sculptor's contracted fee to Crawford's "legal representatives" when the finished statue arrived in Boston, and that he assumed Crawford's friends would ensure the statue's completion and delivery. Bigelow asked Howe to express his condolences to Crawford's wife, Louisa Cutler Ward Crawford. The letter is written in black ink on both sides of one folded sheet of heavy bond paper. |
Object Name |
Letter |
Collection |
Otis Statue |
Catalog Number |
1831.039.006-008 |
Search Terms |
Otis Statue Sculptor Sculpture |
People |
Bigelow, Jacob (1787-1879) Howe, Samuel Gridley (1801-1876) Crawford, Thomas (1814-1857) Crawford, Louisa Cutler Ward (1823 - 1897) |