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Hotel d' Albe

Champs Elysees

Paris, May 19, 1901

Hon. Andrew D. White.

Highly prized friend:-

Your communication
dated May 10th reached me, and
it is needless to add, has given
me sincere pleasure and satisfaction.

From the very first concep-
tion my husband had in regard
to starting the University to the
memory of our loved one, he had
you in his mind as an adviser
and helper. You probably remem-
ber what, to us, was a very mem-
orable visit, at your home in Ithica.
Your interest at that early date,
your sympathy and your willing-
ness to aid in selecting the best
man for a President, was always
remembered with tenderness by

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representing the "Crucifixion"
and the third, the "Ascension".
Between these windows, and all
around the apse, is mosaic work
representing the Glory of the life
of our saviour. This mosaic
work represents a large num-
ber of figures 19 ft. high. Below these,
in the center, I have an exact copy
in mosaic of the "Lord's Supper"
in the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican,
and on either side of this, to fin-
ish the apse, are all the old
Prophets of the Bible in Mosaics.
Under these mosaics there are
niches cut into the solid stone
for the twelve apostles in Car-
rara marble, which are exact
copies of the Apostles in the Church
of St. John Lateran in Rome. I
had these executed by the firm
of Bernieri & Co. at Carrara,
Italy. I visited Carrara last
fall on purpose to see the ex-