Records related to the planning, design, and construction of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial, including an extract from Samuel's will, a contract with architect Paul Philippe Cret, a preliminary report on sculpture and inscriptions, and a 1933 Cret architectural drawing. Also includes correspondence between Henri Marceau, C.L. Borie, Emory McMichael, Joseph Carson, and Cret regarding the sequential approval of individual sculptural elements — the Ploughman, the Gold Miner, Spanning the Continent, and Welcoming the Peoples — negotiations over Art Jury jurisdiction, landscape and planting correspondence, and correspondence regarding exedra inscriptions, including the rejection of a Thomas Paine quotation in favor of a passage from the Declaration of Independence.