1856-04-01 Winthrop Statue: Copy of Jacob Bigelow to Richard S. Greenough (page 1)

copy to R.S. Greenough
Apr. 1856

Copy

To RS Greenough) Boston April 1 1856

My dear sir

I have duly received your two letters
from Paris of Jany 21 & March 9th.

The pedestals have not yet arrived, but no doubt
we may expect them soon.

I am gratified with the report of the successful
progress of the Winthrop Statue, & have no doubt
that it will do equal honor to the sculptor and
the original. The latter probably never dreamt
that his posthumous character was to be sustained
by such able hands.

The colored panes are removed from the end
windows of the chapel, & also from the clerestory,
replacing them with white glass except in the
two large windows which being deeply recessed,
do not strike the statues with their light.

I think when the plaster statue is complete,
you had better send to Mr Curtis (or whoever
is your correspondent here) a draft for the sum
to which you are entitled by contract (say $1500.)
payable in 3 days from sight, & drawn on George W.
Bond, Treasurer of Mount Auburn Cemetery. For the
satisfaction of the Trustees you had better accompany
your own announcement with the voucher--