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35 28 March 1809, both online at founders. archives.gov. 7. Fred A. Emery, "Washington News- papers," Records of the Columbia Historical Society 37-38(1937):43. 8. Pamela Scott, "Power, Civic Virtue, Wisdom, Liberty, and the Constitution," in Donald R . Kennon, ed., A Republic for the Ages: e United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic (Char- lottesville, VA,1999), pp. 402-47. 9. Latrobe to Frederick May, 24 Sept. 1814, in Edward C. Carter II and omas E. Jeffrey, eds., Microfiche Edition of the Papers of Henry Latrobe (Clion, NJ, 1976) 119/G2. 10. Ibid. 11. Latrobe to Mary Elizabeth Latrobe, 17 April 1815, in Van Horne and Form- walt, Latrobe Correspondence 3:644. 12. For Latrobe's freedom in the use of the orders, see Charles E. Brownell, "omas Jefferson's Architectural Models and the United States Capitol," in Ken- non, Republic for the Ages, pp. 349-381. 13. Cohen and Brownell, Latrobe Drawings 2:402; Pamela Scott, Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation (New York, 1995), pp. 77-78 (Franzoni's sketches are illustrated on p. 126); Robert Mills, Guide to the Capi- tol and National Executive Offices of the United States (Washington, DC, 1847- 48), p. 10. 14. "Description of the Federal Edifice at New York," [Boston] Massachusetts Magazine ( June 1789):332; Scott, Temple of Liberty, pp. 76-7; Jefferson to Latrobe, 10 Oct. 1809, Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Correspondence 2:777. 15. Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Correspondence 3:733. 16. [omas Law], "Our Correspon- dent at Washington," [VA] Alexandria Gazette, 4 March 1817. e additional description of Rep. Timothy Pickering's mimicking hand gestures is taken from a reprinting of the original report by [Philadelphia] Poulson's American Daily Advertiser, 11 March 1817. 17. Carlo Franzoni, Proposal, 21 July 1812, RG 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, Entry 17, Con- tracts and Estimates, Volume 1, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC; Latrobe to omas Law, 10 Nov. 1816, Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Correspondence 3:826. 18. George Watterston, A New Guide to Washington (Washington, DC, 1842), pp. 27-28. J.H.B. Latrobe, "e Capitol and Washington at the Beginning of the Present Century: An Address before the American Institute of Architects in Wash- ington, November 16, 1881" (pamphlet, Washington, D.C., 1881), p. 21. 19. Frederick S. Allis, Jr. and Roy Bartolomei, eds., Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Timothy Pickering Papers (Boston, 1966), p. 13; [Law], [VA] Alexan- dria Gazette, 4 March 1817. 20. [Law], [VA] Alexandria Gazette, 4 March 1817. Pickering would have known that the Virginia militia who marched to Boston in 1775 at George Washington's request wore buckskins as its uniform. 21. Latrobe to Law, 10 Nov. 1816, Van Horne and Formwa lt, Latrobe Correspondence 3:824. 22. Ibid. 3:828-9. 23. Charles E. Brownell, "Latrobe, His Crasmen, and the Corinthian Order of the Hall of Representatives," in Ian M.G Quimby, e Crasman in America (New York, 1984), pp. 247-272. 24. Jefferson to Latrobe, 8 Sept. 1805, Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Cor- respondence 2:140; [Philadelphia] e American Register; or, General Repository of History, Politics and Science, 1 Jan. 1809; Noble E. Cunningham, Jr., ed., "e Diary of Frances Few, 1808-1809," e Journal of Southern History 29(Aug. 1963):352. Images of Latrobe's first House chamber were digitally generated by the architectural historian Richard Chenoweth for his article "e Most Beautiful Room in the World? Latrobe, Jefferson, and the First Capitol," e Capitol Dome, v. 51, 3(Fall 2014):24-39. 25. Cohen and Brownell, Latrobe Drawings 2:352-4; Latrobe to Jefferson, 29 Oct. 1806, Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Correspondence 2:280. 26. Latrobe to John Lenthall (Clerk of the Works), 5 Aug. 1804, Van Horne and Formwalt, Latrobe Correspondence 1:528. 27. Latrobe to Jefferson, 29 Oct. 1806. 28. Cohen and Brownell, Latrobe Drawings 2:350-1; Brian Stelle, "'e Yeomanry of the United States Are Not the Canaille of Paris': omas Jefferson, American Exceptionalism, and the 'Spirit' of Democracy," in Robert M.S. McDon- ald, ed., Light and Liberty: omas Jeffer- son and the Power of Knowledge (Charlot- tesville, VA, 2012), p. 21; Jefferson to Latrobe, 12 July 1812; Jefferson to Tench Coxe, 1 June 1795; and Jefferson to John Adams, 12 Sept. 1821, all online at found- ers.archives.gov. 29. T.H. Gilliss, "To Mechanics," [Washington, DC] Daily National Intel- ligencer, 25 July 1815. 30. Cohen and Brownell, Latrobe Drawings 2:445-6. 31. Latrobe, "Report on the Hall of Representatives," Van Horne and Form- walt, Latrobe Correspondence 2:503-4. 32. Resolution of 14 June 1777, in Worthington Ford et al., eds., Journals of the Continental Congress, 1774-1789 (34 vols., Washington, D.C., 1904-37) 8:464. George Weis was paid $468 on 31 March 1818, for 117 days' work on the plaster model of Liberty (RG 42: Records of the Office of Public Buildings and Public Parks of the National Capital, Entry 72, Abstracts of Expenditures, National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC). e traditional attri- bution of Carlo Franzoni as the sculptor of the Car of History may be incorrect because several sculptors, including Ital- ians, worked for Latrobe in 1816-1817. 33. Cohen and Brownell, Latrobe Drawings 2:357, 362-5. 34. "For the National Messenger," [Georgetown, DC] National Messenger, 28 Nov. 1817. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams mentions Lane's em- bezzlement in connection with a Senate proposal that the commissioner's office be abolished and its duties transferred to the architect (Bulfinch); entry of 13 April 1822, Diary 32:262, Adams Family Manuscript Trust, Massachusetts Histori- cal Society, Boston.