Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty (43 page)

“When you observe the attention”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, September 11, 1871, NYPL.

“I must make all possible arrangements”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, September 18, 1871, NYPL.

“Went to the Capitol”: Bartholdi diary, September 29, 1871, NYPL.

“Farewell view of the bay”: Bartholdi diary, October 7, 1871, NYPL.

“I am very glad to come here”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, August 29, 1871, NYPL.

“For want of anything better”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to Charlotte Bartholdi, September 24, 1871, NYPL.

Chapter 7

Then there was the matter: Singleton,
Famous Sculpture as Seen and Described by Great Writers,
pp. 353–54.

“I have a horror”: Carden, “Frederic Auguste Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty,” 24.

“It must live with the public”: F. Auguste Bartholdi to the Mayor of Belfort, April 12, 1872, correspondence de Bartholdi, archives municipales de Belfort, France.

“in going to America”: Blanchet and Dard,
Statue of Liberty,
p. 50.

“My Dear Burty”: Matthew Bennett International, LLC, Sale 329, Lot 153, letter of November 20, 1875.

“intended to do honor”: Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, October 26, 1875, Mississippi State University Digital Collections, vol. 28, November 1, 1876–September 30, 1878, p. 157.

“representing the states and the territories”: “The Statues of the Centennial,”
Messenger,
February 27, 1876, p. 3.

a subscription drive: W. C. and F. P. Church,
The Galaxy
(New York: Sheldon, 1876), p. 262.

Hugo had been elected senator: Alfred Barbos,
Victor Hugo and His Time,
trans. E. E. Frewer (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882), p. 385.

“I will not dissimulate”: Charles Gounod letter to Victor Hugo, March 1, 1876, Bartholdi file, Archives du Musée D’Orsay, Paris, France.

Bartholdi had stopped at the statue: Richard Seth Hydan, Thierry W. Despont, Nadine M. Post, and Dan Cornish,
Restoring the Statue of Liberty: Sculpture, Structure, Symbol
(New York: McGraw-Hill, 1986), p. 24.

“I really quite trembled”: Daniel Wilson,
Letters from an Absent Brother,
vol. 2, 2nd ed. (London: George Wilson, 1824), p. 107.

“In the head a party of six”: John Roby,
Seven Weeks in Belgium,
vols. 1–2 (London: Lonyman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1838), p. 655.

“a work of colossal art”: “A Mammoth Statue,”
Our Mail Budget
43, no. 6627 (December 1886): 1.

His collaborator: Photo archives Musée d’Orsay, Monduit.

“he never worked”: “Freakish Costumes,”
Daily Sentinel
(Rome, NY), October 11, 1919, p. 7.

In two months he had completed: Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc,
How to Build a House: An Architectural Novelette,
2nd ed. (London: Sampson, Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876), p. viii (from the introduction by Benjamin Bucknall).

Even a tumble: “He Cut the Rope,”
Livonia (NY) Gazette,
January 27, 1893, front page.

They had also, in 1865: “Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty,”
American Architect and Building News,
p. 137.

considered her in slices: Barnard, “The Bartholdi Statue,” p. 726.

Philadelphia’s parks department: Minutes of the Park Board, New York, Department of Parks, 1876, p. 716.

The ship on which: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi
, p. 309.

On board the ship to America: François Côté, Libraire,
Catalogue 42: Pour le Salon du Livre de Montréal,
September 22 and 23, 2012, p. 43.

The event went on past midnight: L. Simonin,
Le Monde Américain
(Paris: Librairie Hachette & Cie, 1885), p. 435.

Newspapers the next day: “Our Statue of Liberty,”
Evening Telegram
(New York), July 29, 1876, 2nd ed. [no page number].

“an exact copy of a portion”: James O. Adams, “Centennial Papers,”
Report by New Hampshire Department of Agriculture
(Concord, NH: Edward A. Jenks, 1876), p. 105.

“It is true that at first”: “The French Statue,”
New York Times,
September 29, 1876.

On December 6, 1876: “Department of Parks,”
New York Herald,
December 7, 1876, p. 11.

The ceremony took place: John La Farge,
The Manner Is Ordinary
(New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1954), p. 16.

“On Christmas Day”: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty,
p. 42.

“There’s no lack of people”: Belot and Bermond,
Bartholdi
, p. 322.

“Children?”: Laurent Causel,
Bartholdi and the Statue of Liberty,
Centennial Commemoration (Strasbourg: Éditions de la Nuée-Bleue, 1984), p. 33.

Chapter 8

“an impressive ornament”: “An Appeal to the People of the United States in Behalf of the Great Statue, Liberty Enlightening the World,” New York, 1882, p. 6.

thought would total $125,000: “The Colossal Statue of Liberty,”
New York Times,
January 3, 1877.

The U.S. Navy bought a ship: “The Egyptian Obelisk: Arrival of Cleopatra’s Needle in New York,”
Evening Telegram
(New York), July 20, 1880, p. 4.

Bartholdi sniffed: “The Academy of Design,”
New York Times,
March 30, 1882.

“The parlor cars”: “Railway Industries,”
Railway World
21 (August 25, 1877): 797.

Lavastre isolated what line or shade: “Thomas’s Latest Opera,”
New York Times,
May 7, 1882.

Lavastre built cul-de-sacs, succulent gardens: “Hugo’s Old Play Revived,”
New York Times,
December 10, 1882.

“Long before the head”: “Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty,”
American Architect and Building News,
p. 78.

In France, the Universal Exposition:
Encyclopaedia Britannica,
9th ed. (Philadelphia: Maxwell Somerville, 1884), p. 265.

“It was at once strange and moving”: Provoyeur and Hargrove,
Liberty;
Le Petit Journal,
June 30, 1878, p. 66.

An American newspaper: “Our Paris Letter,”
New Ulm Weekly Review
(Brown County, MN), September 18, 1878.

“The straightly thrust up arm”:
Reports of the United States Commissioners to the Paris Universal Exposition, 1878,
Published Under Direction of the Secretary of State by Authority of Congress, vol. 2 (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1880), p. 127.

“The most singular of all”: “An Impressionist at the Paris Exposition,”
Atlantic
42 (1878): 587.

As with the torch: “France Sends Her Sons,”
World
(New York), 1886 [no date visible],
fultonhistory.com
: New York NY World 1886a - 2255.pdf.

The workmen had not started: “Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty,”
American Architect and Building News,
p. 78.

“France has lost one of her most famous”: “M. Viollet-le-Duc,”
Scientific American Supplement,
vol. 7, no. 202, November 15, 1879.

Chapter 9

Bartholdi bustled about: “Bartholdi’s Statue of Liberty,”
Brooklyn Daily Argus,
July 26, 1881, front page.

contributed several of the park’s major structures: Yasmin Sabina Khan,
Enlightening the World: The Creation of the Statue of Liberty
(Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010), p. 140.

“the obvious person”: Henri Loyrette,
Gustave Eiffel,
trans. Rachel and Susan Gomme (New York: Rizzoli, 1985), p. 100.

“the conditions of strict economy”: Ibid.

The 1881 annual report:
Annual Report, United States Army, Signal Corps, 1861–1891
(Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1881), p. 99.

“The heat of the sun”: Barnard, “The Bartholdi Statue,” p. 728.

“gigantic battery”:
Le Genie Civil,
1883, p. 117.

Meanwhile, Bartholdi: “Bartholdi’s Great Statue,”
New York Times,
July 14, 1884.

The workers screwed the joints together: “Liberty,”
New York Herald,
August 5, 1884, with supplement, p. 8.

would cost more than a million francs: “The Statue Is Unveiled,”
Livonia (NY) Gazette,
October 29, 1886 [no page number visible].

To deal with the threat of the galvanic charge: “The Bartholdi Statue,”
American Architect and Building News,
vol. 14, no. 404 (1883), p. 138.

To celebrate, Bartholdi invited: Eugène Véron, “Un Déjeuner dans une Statue,” in
Courrier de l’Art
(Paris: Librairie de l’Art, 1884), p. 351.

Bartholdi ushered: Ibid.

“Her presence above the port”: Ibid.

“We have been glad to hear him explain”: Ibid.

one of the organizers promised: Ibid.

“in view of the facts”: “Bartholdi’s Liberty,”
Evening Post
(New York), October 2, 1882, front page.

A fundraising concert: “Liberty,”
New York Herald
, August 5, 1884, p. 8.

“the engineer had to read”:
Salt Lake Herald,
June 20, 1883, p. 4.

“as if they had been mown”: “Liberty,”
New York Herald
, August 5, 1884, p. 8.

“But the impressionable hearers”: “Liberty Enlightening the World,”
Kansas City Review of Science and Industry
6 (1882): 601.