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Instructions—France, RG 59, NARA. 25. Seward to Dayton, 31 Mar. 1862, ibid. 26. Dayton to Seward, 22 Apr. 1862, Dispatches from U.S. Minister to France, RG 59, NARA. 27. See, for example, Philadelphia Inquirer, 16 April 1862. 28. The [Baltimore] Sun, 2 July 1862 (sum- marized quote); see Congressional Globe, Senate, 37th Cong., 2nd sess., 3047 for precise statement. 29. New York Daily Tribune, 25 Aug. 1862. The French/Sonoran rumors continued; see Detroit Free Press, 6 Dec. 1862. 30. New York Daily Tribune, 18 Oct. 1862. 31. "Leutze" entry, 10 Oct. 1862, Index to Letters Sent (E-24), RG 80; also see 9 Oct. 1862, Register of Letters Sent (E-6), RG 45, and 10 Oct. 1862, Registers of Letters Received (E-32), RG 45, all in NARA. 32. e [Baltimore] Sun, 27 Nov. 1862. 33. Ibid., 3 and 18 Dec. 1862. 34. [Washington DC] Daily National Intelli- gencer, 27 Nov. 1862. 35. Seward to Welles, 29 Nov. 1862, Letters Received, (E-44), RG 45, NARA. 36. Alexandria [Virginia] Gazette, 1 Jan. 1863, quoting a New York Post story. 37. Edward Bates Diary, 20 Dec. 1862, Bates Papers, LOC. 38. Seward to Welles, 23 Dec. 1862, Letters Received, (E-44), RG 45, NARA. 39. Chicago Tribune, 30 Dec. 1862; this letter was widely published in the press. 40. Fanny Seward Diary, 1 Jan. 1863, William H. Seward Papers, University of Rochester Special Collections, Rochester, NY. At a later meet- ing, Fanny recorded Leutze's personal advice to her with regard to the Capitol's Westward: "he begged me never to look at it except upon a bright, sunny day, the light of which he thought indispensable" (ibid., 19 Jan. 1863). e House and Senate gallery staircases originally featured skylights, which sup- plied ample natural light; they were subsequently covered for maintenance reasons. 41. Ibid., 14 Jan. 1863. 42. New York Daily Tribune, 18 Oct. 1862; Paul H. Silverstone, Civil War Navies (New York, 2006), 14; USS Saranac photos #NH43997 and #NH76112, Naval History and Heritage Command, Washington, DC. 43. Leutze subsequently painted the portraits of Fanny and Anna Seward, designed the tombstones of Frances and Fanny Seward, and painted a depic- tion of William Seward negotiating the purchase of Alaska. See F.W. Seward to Leutze, 14 Nov. 1866 and 14 Mar. 1867, Leutze Papers, LOC. 44. Seward to Dayton, 6 Feb. 1863, Volume 8, Correspondence—State Dept., Seward Papers, University of Rochester Special Collections, Rochester, NY. IMAGE CREDITS: Fig. 1. Library of Congress, Prints & Pho- tographs Division, [LC-USZ62-31600] Fig. 2. Detail, Library of Congress, Geogra- phy and Map Division Fig. 3. Detail, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-DIG-ppms- ca-26583] Fig. 4. Detail from [Artists' portraits from Henry Tuckerman's Book of the Artists...] [graphic] / [George Rockwood and Napoleon Sarony], [ca. 1865]-1867. Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. Fig. 5. Smithsonian American Art Mu- seum, bequest of Sara Carr Upton Fig. 6. Civil war photographs, 1861–1865, Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, [LC-DIG-cwpb-04842] Fig. 7. Library of Congress, Prints & Pho- tographs Division, [LC-DIG-stereo-1s07910] Fig. 8. U.S. Senate Historical Office Fig. 9. War Department records, Brady National Photographic Art Gallery (Washing- ton, DC), U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (identifier: 528357) Fig. 10. Architect of the Capitol Fig. 11. NH 43997, U.S. Naval History & Heritage Command Fig. 12. Photo illustration, USCHS; paint- ing, Architect of the Capitol THE CAPITOL DOME 59