Publication InformationGrotta d'MonsummanoJune 23 66

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Dear Powers

Senator Edmunds & Representative Morrill have written you to know your terms for a statue or two for Vermont. Don't answer their letter till I see you, which will be in a week or so. The good folks of Vermont are determined to have something from , & I hope the terms can be arranged. They will want Ethan Allen for one. There is no likeness of him

but I suppose that is no objection to you.

I shall be at home in a week or so Possibly not till Monday 2' but not later.

Yours trulyG P M

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George Franklin Edmunds (1828-1919) began his career practicing law in Burlington. He served in the Vermont State House of Representatives and in the State Senate. In 1866 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican to fill the vacancy caused by Solomon Foot's death and served for four terms. He resigned in 1891. Edmunds was married to Susan Edmunds, the daughter of Marsh's sister and Wyllys Lyman, his Burlington friend.

A native of Strafford, Vermont, Justin Smith Morrill (1810-1898), was a Whig who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1855 to 1867 and the U.S. Senate from 1867 until his death in 1898. He was the author of the great land grant bill that bears his name and became law in 1862. Morrill was a Smithsonian Regent (1865-1898) and a trustee of the University of Vermont (1865-1898).