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1. C.M. Harris, "Washington's Gamble, L'Enfant's Dream: Politics, Design, and the Found- ing of the National Capital," William and Mary Quarterly 56, no. 3(July 1999):552-53, 559-60; Rubil Morales-Vázquez, "Redeeming a Sacred Pledge: The Plans to Bury George Washington in the Nation's Capital," in Kenneth R. Bowling and Donald R. Kennon, eds., Establishing Congress: The Removal to Washington, D.C. and the Election of 1800 (Athens, OH, 2005), pp. 151-152; Karal Ann Marling, "The United States Capitol as Mau- soleum: Or, Who's Buried in Washington's Tomb?" in Donald R. Kennon, ed., A Republic for the Ages: The United States Capitol and the Political Culture of the Early Republic (Charlottesville, VA, 1999), pp. 448-449; William C. Allen, "Pantheon on the Potomac: The Architectural Evolution of the Capitol Rotun- da," in Donald R. Kennon and Thomas P. Somma, eds., American Pantheon: Sculptural and Artistic Decoration of the United States Capitol (Athens, OH, 2004), pp. 5-6; Kirk Savage, Monument Wars: Washington D.C., the National Mall, and the Trans- formation of the Memorial Landscape (Berkley, CA, 2005), pp. 35-38. For a point-by-point refutation of C.M. Harris's claims, see William C. Allen, "Wash- ington's Tomb in the Capitol's Original Plan: A Rebuttal," 4 Oct. 2005, Catafalque and Tomb Folder, Office of the Architect of the United States Capitol Archives (OAUSCA). 2. William Thornton to Commissioners of Wash- ington, DC, ca. 10 April 1793, box 1, reel 1, Papers of William Thornton, Library of Congress; see also C.M. Harris, ed., Papers of William Thornton (Char- lottesville, VA, 1995) 1:242. In his will, Washington was very clear that he wished to be buried in the family tomb at Mount Vernon; see George Washing- ton's Last Will and Testament, 9 July 1799, in W.W. Abbot, ed., Papers of George Washington: Retire- ment Series (Charlottesville, VA, 1999) 4:491. 3. George Washington to David Stuart, 1 Febru- ary 1793, Philander Chase et al., eds., Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series (Charlot- tesville, VA, 2005) 12:81, 249; George Washington to Thomas Jefferson, 30 June 1793 and Tobias Lear to William Thornton, 13 July 1793, box 1, reel 1, Papers of William Thornton, Library of Congress; Thomas Jefferson to George Washington, 17 July 1793 and George Washington to the Commissioners for the District of Columbia, 25 July 1793, Theodore Crackel et al., eds., Papers of George Washington: Presidential Series (Charlottesville, VA, 2007) 13:236-39, 276-78; Don Alexander Hawkins, William Thornton's Lost Design of the United States Capitol: A Study and a Reconstruction, OAUSCA; Dr. William Thornton's Capitol Plans, William Thornton, Plans and Drawings Folder, OAUSCA; Pamela Scott, Temple of Liberty: Building the Capitol for a New Nation (New York, 1995), pp. 37-43; Savage, Monument Wars, pp. 35-38. 4. William C. Allen, The United States Capitol: A Brief Architectural History (Washington, DC, 1990), pp. 3-12; Philadelphia Gazette, 19 Dec. 1799; [Georgetown, DC] Centinel of Liberty, 24 Dec. 1799; 19 Dec. 1799, House Journal, 6th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 540-42; 19 Dec. 1799, Senate Journal, 6th Cong., 1st sess., pp. 11-13; [New York] Commer- cial Advertiser, 26 Dec. 1799; [New York] Weekly Museum, 28 Dec. 1799; [Elizabethtown] New-Jersey Journal, 31 Dec. 1799; [Massachusetts] Salem Gazette, 3 Jan. 1800; [Portsmouth, NH] Federal Observer, 3 Jan. 1800; John Adams, Theodore Sedgwick, and Samuel Livermore to Martha Wash- ington, box 1, 24 Dec. 1799, Peter Family Archives, Fred W. Smith Library; Martha Washington to John Adams, 31 Dec. 1799, Fred W. Smith National Library. 5. Tobias Lear to John Adams, 4 Jan. 1800, Fred W. Smith National Library; William Thornton to John Marshall M.H.R., 2 Jan. 1800, box 3, reel 2, Papers of William Thornton, Library of Congress; Diary of Mrs. Anna Thornton 1800-1863, 3 Jan. 1800, William Thornton, OAUSCA. Congress put Martha Washington in a difficult position asking for her husband's remains in a very public manner. The request was published in newspapers across the country, adding pressure to Martha's decision. While she agreed to the request, she also loathed the thought of Thomas Jefferson being involved in that process. John Cotton Smith wrote of one instance where Martha verbalized her dislike for Jefferson and his patronizing visit to Washington's tomb; see William Watson Andrews, ed., Miscellanies and Notes 10 THE CAPITOL DOME