it and, in fact, at this time it was quite unknown. I asked him where he got it, and he said that Douglas Volk had given it to him in Paris, it having been taken by Mr. Volk's father, the sculptor, Leonard W. Volk, who also took Lincoln's hands. This was the now famous life-mask. I thereupon got up a little committee, consisting of Thomas B. Clarke, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, R. W. Gilder, and Erwin Davis. Our circular, I notice, was dated, New York, February 1, 1886. We raised by subscription enough money to purchase the original cast, which we presented to the National Museum at Washington, where it has ever since been on exhibition.'Letters of Richard Watson Gilder.