Correspondence regarding site preparation, Art Jury approval, and inscription design for the statue, including a Fairmount Park Commission resolution approving the statue by sculptor Giuseppe Donato to be cast in bronze and an Art Jury specification that burnt sienna rather than coal dust be used to color the incised lettering (1941), and correspondence regarding an offer to donate Irish ivy for planting around the base, including a site plan sketch by landscape gardener J. Russell Bebler (1946). Also includes a 1955 clipping.