Correspondence
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Butler, Howard Russell, 1856-1934
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers
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content: Howard Russell Butler papers / Series 5: Abraham Lincoln statue controversy
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1917-1922
container: label: Container
content: Reel 349, Frame 77-344
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
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content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Microform [31027000104063]
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content: Correspondence includes about 100 items relating to Butler's investigations concerning the Abraham Lincoln statue gift. Principal correspondents include Robert Todd Lincoln, F. Wellington Ruckstull, Nicholas Murray Butler, James B. Townsend, Lawrence F. Abbott, Charles W. Eliot, Frederick R. Coudert, Henry S. Haskell, Robert W. De Forest, and Alfred Mond, British First Commissioner of Works. Also included are copies of letters to Butler, or associates, from John A. Stewart and Arthur James Balfour, and drafts of Butler's letters to colleagues and newspapers supporting the Augustus St. Gaudens statue.