I possess a partiality for irregular houses, when you go up and down steps, out of one room into another and when you come upon more rooms when you think you have seen all there are, and where then is a bountiful provision of little halls & passages, and where you find older rooms in unexpected places with lattice windows and green growth pressing through them.
Abraham Lincoln's Bust
c. 1865
Plaster bust set on pedestal of Abraham Lincoln as President. Bronzing paint over white plaster. Sculpted by Mr. Thomas D. Jones of Cincinnati, OH. According to the family, it was displayed in Seward's Washington home and brought back to Auburn. Seward said that he would place it in a position of importance in his library.
