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4 bis Via delle Officine
Florence Italy, Dec. 26th 1890
Mrs Leland Stanford.
Dear Madame,
Your highly esteemed favor of Dec. 12th has reached me.
I shall be very glad to make any changes that you may suggest in the group.
The quality of marble best suited for a group of such grand proportions is from the quarries of Serravezza, you can see specimens of it in statues of Jefferson and Franklin in the corridors of the United States Senate Chambers
The shortest possible time in which the groups could be completed in marble would be eighteen months.
To give you an idea of the size of the group as it would be in marble. The figure of your husband would be about seven feet tall, and the other figures in relative proportion.
The groups will be taller than the group of Columbus and Isabella which D.O. Wills
presented to the State of California, which I made and which is in the Capital Building at Sacramento.

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