May 04, 2017 - Sale 2446

Sale 2446 - Lot 338

Price Realized: $ 260
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
DAVIS, RICHARD HARDING. Typed Letter Signed, "RHDavis," to Samuel E. Moffat, introducing Gutzon Borglum and recommending him to sculpt the Lincoln statue. 1/2 page, 4to, personal stationery; faint scattered staining, folds. (MRS) New York, 16 September 1907
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". . . If there is any sculptor in America capable of making the Lincoln statue so that Lincoln's heirs need not be ashamed of it, Borglum is that person. . . ."
Borglum's marble bust of Lincoln, sculpted by him in December 1907, is presently on display in the Crypt of the U.S. Capitol.