Complimentary Dinner to William DurantPrivately printed, 1894 - 54 strani |
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Advisory Manager appreciation Apthorp Barker Beal Benjamin F BOSTON EVENING TRANSCRIPT Boston journalism Boston Transcript Company bust Chairman Charles cheers committee Complimentary Dinner COMPOSITION DEPARTMENT congratulations continuous service Copley Square Hotel counting-room Crandon Danforth dream Dutton E. H. CLEMENT Edward H Edward W Estey eyesight faithful family party February 19 Frank Frederic Frederick Fullerton George GIVEN ON Monday Greenall greet Groce guest half an eye Hammond happiness Harvard College Hazewell Henry Hersey honor Jerome Jones Joseph Kingdon Lady Proprietors Laughter and applause Manager and Treasurer Mandell Mount Vernon Mutual Aid Society Nason note inviting Nothing's occasion owners paper pedestal pleasant pleasure POEM present printed prosperity reception and dinner REMARKS Robie Samuel Secretary Sincerely Sise sixtieth anniversary sixty Stetson Stimpson There's thirty threescore to-day to-night Transcript family Transcript Mutual Aid Transcript office Walter E Warren Washington Whitney William Durant wishes
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Stran 6 - Forsake not an old friend, for the new is not comparable to him : a new friend is as new wine ; when it is old thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Stran 26 - It will give me pleasure, Sir, to welcome you to this seat of my retirement; and whatever I have, or can procure, that is necessary to your purposes, or convenient and agreeable to your wishes, you must freely command, as inclination to oblige you will be among the last things in which I shall be found deficient, either on your arrival or during your stay.
Stran 26 - Mr. Peale to send them a full-length portrait of the general, to be used as a model for the sculptor. The only method by which a perfect likeness of the great patriot might be secured, was to have the artist make a model from the living face ; and Messrs. Franklin and Jefferson accordingly engaged Houdon, a portrait sculptor, then without a rival in the world, to go to America for the purpose. Houdon was a small, active, and exceedingly industrious Frenchman ; careful and prudent, and disposed to...
Stran 10 - Honest men esteem and value nothing so much in this world as a real friend. Such a one is, as it were, another self to whom we Impart our most secret thoughts, who partakes of our Joy, and comforts us in our affliction; add to this that his company Is an everlasting pleasure to us.
Stran 26 - English guinea being worth twenty-five livres) for the statue and pedestal. Besides this, we pay his expenses going and returning, which we expect will be between four and five thousand livres : and if he dies on the voyage, we pay his family ten thousand livres. This latter proposition was disagreeable to us; but he has a father, mother, and sisters, who have no resource but in his labor : and he is himself one of the best men in the world.
Stran 26 - He remained there a fortnight, and made, on the living face of our illustrious friend, a plaster mould, preparatory for the clay impression which was then modelled into the form of a bust, and immediately, before it could shrink from drying, moulded and cast in plaster, to be afterward copied in marble in Paris. The clay model was left at Mount Vernon, where it may be seen upon a bracket in the library, whitewashed, as to resemble marble or plaster of Paris.
Stran 26 - ... Its Associations, the foregoing details have been gathered. In the presence of James Madison Houdon made exact measurements of the person of Washington, made notes on the sort of clothes he wore, etc., and then returned to France. The statue was not completed until 1789, when to the inscription upon the pedestal were added the words: "Done in the year of CHRIST one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and in the year of the commonwealth, twelve.
Stran 26 - ... insurance upon Houdon's life, in London, at an additional expense of five hundred livres, or about ninety-two dollars. It was more than a year after the order for the statue was given before Houdon arrived. He came over in the s'ame vessel that brought Doctor Franklin home.
Stran 32 - I regret very much to have to write and say it will be impossible for me to accept your invitation to attend the twenty-fourth annual reunion of our Society.
Stran 26 - Done in the year of CHRIST one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, and in the year of the commonwealth, twelve." Houdon's statue stands in the rotunda of the capitol at Richmond. It is of fine Italian marble, size of life. The...