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THE CAPITOL DOME 43 1. Illustrated Exhibitor, 1851, 290. 2. Lorado Taft, The History of American Sculpture (New York, 1903), 80. 3. Henry T. Tuckerman, Book of the Artists: American Artist Life (1867; reprint, New York, 1966), 307. 4. Consular files transcribed by Col. Moore and held in the Moore Crawford File, American Art and Portrait Gallery Library, Smithsonian Institu- tion, Washington, DC. 5. e New York Herald, 6 Dec. 1857. 6. Albany Knickerbocker quoted in the [New York] Evening Post, 21 Dec. 1857. e name of the town is Ballyshannon. 7. See Lillian B. Miller, Patrons and Patriotism: e Encouragement of the Fine Arts in the United States, 1790–1860 (Chicago, 1966). 8. Journals, Montgomery C. Meigs Papers, MS Division, Library of Congress (LOC). 9. Ibid., Jul. 1855 (the particular day unidenti- fied) and 28 Oct. 1857 respectively. 10. omas P. Somma, e Apotheosis of De- mocracy, 1908–1916: e Pediment of the House Wing of the United States Capitol (Newark, DE, 1995), 41. 11. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 26 March 1870. 12. Somma, Apotheosis, 41. 13. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, 12 Nov. 1887. at the busts would be commissioned was agreed at a Joint Committee on the Library meet- ing on 20 May 1886. 14. e other sculptors were Daniel Chester French, Moses Ezekiel, and Larkin G. Meade. 15. Edward Clark to Saint-Gaudens, 27 Nov. 1886, Senate Curatorial Files: A. Saint-Gaudens, Chester A. Arthur, 22.00020. 16. Saint-Gaudens to Clark, 3 Dec. 1886, Senate Files, 22.00020. 17. Saint-Gaudens to Clark, 4 Jul. 1887, Senate Files, 22.00020. 18. Clark to Saint-Gaudens, 29 Jul. 1891, Senate Files, 22.00020. 19. Saint-Gaudens to Hon L.P. Morton, 12 Nov. 1891, Senate Files, 22.00020. 20. For example, see Senate Journal, 43rd Con- gress, 1st sess., 194. 21. John H. Dryout, e Work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens (Lebanon, NH, 1982), cat. 59. 22. Saint-Gaudens to Edward Clarke, 31 Jul. 1876, Senate Curatorial Files: A. Saint-Gaudens, Roger B. Taney, 21.00018. 23. Correspondence between Saint-Gaudens and Sen. Justin Morrill, Dec. 1876, Senate Files, 21.00018. 24. Ibid. 25. Clark to Saint-Gaudens, 21 Jul. 1891, Supreme Court archive: 1891.1, marble bust of Chief Justice Morris Waite. 26. See Katya Miller, "Behold the Statue of Freedom: Sculptor omas Crawford and Sen- ator Charles Sumner," e Capitol Dome, vol. 50, 3 (Summer 2013): 16–23. Crawford's bust of Sumner is in the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. 27. Milmore to Sumner, 25 Jan. 1866, e Papers of Charles Sumner, LOC. 28. Boston Evening Transcript, 23 Nov. 1864. 29. Boston Evening Transcript, 22 Feb. 1866. 30. Milmore to Sumner, 5 May 1866, Sumner Papers, LOC. 31. Milmore to Sumner, 25 Jan. 1866, Sumner Papers, LOC. 32. Lydia Maria Child to Miss Lucy Osgood, 1865, in Letters of Lydia Maria Child (Boston, noteS sity Press, 2010) and Sculpture 1600-2000, vol. 3 in the 5-volume RIA Art and Architecture of Ireland (Yale University Press, 2015). In 2015 she was awarded the Royal Hibernian Academy Gold Medal for her contri- bution to Irish art. She is currently working on a book on Irish-American sculptors. In 2016–17 she held the Terra Foundation Senior Fellowship at the Smithso- nian American Art Museum. In 2017 she was awarded a Capitol Fellowship by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society, under which she carried out the research for this essay. She would like to extend her immense grati- tude to everyone at the Capitol who assisted her in her research and particularly to Dr. Michele Cohen, curator of the Office of Architect of the Capitol.