Seward's Statue in Madison Square NYC

[Linda Anderson]

Bill, according to an April 10, 1906 letter to the Editor of the New York Times written by Joseph E. Pumpelly, a fund was raised "about 1870" to erect the Seward statue by "patriotic citizens." The committee asked the sculptor to lower his price which the sculptor declined to do and instead offered to attach the head of Seward to the body of Lincoln, "which had been left on his hands by a defaulting Western city."

A "distinguished sculptor" (probably Wilson MacDonald) told Mr. Pumpelly that Seward's biographer, who is not named but is probably Frederic Bancroft, thought the statue was a "monstrosity" which should be removed.

http://rogerjnorton.com/PatchworkStatue.pdf

Here is a different view of the statue.



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