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- GLC#
- GLC08246.02-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- 24 June 1858
- Author/Creator
- Meigs, Montgomery C. (Montgomery Cunningham), 1816-1892
- Title
- to J. Glancy Jones
- Place Written
- s.l.
- Pagination
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Meigs allays concerns over the Capitol Dome's stability: "There were plenty of people, who when Michel Angelo was building the Dome of St. Peter's thought it would never stand..." Jones was on the House Ways & Means Committee.
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