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Identifier : georgemasonofvir00maso ( find matches ) Title : George Mason of Virginia, citizen, statesman, philosopher Year : 1919 ( 1910s ) Authors : Mason, Robert C Subjects : Mason, George, 1725-1792 Statesmen Gunston Hall (Ship) Publisher : New York : Oscar Aurelius Morgner Contributing Library : University of Pittsburgh Library System Digitizing Sponsor : Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation View Book Page : Book Viewer About This Book : Catalog Entry View All Images : All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: Mr. Robert C. Mason, v^ Richmond, Virginia. (51 Correspondence Richmond, Va., June 7,1918.His Excellency, Honorable Woodrow Wilson,President of the United States,Executive Mansion,Washington, D. C.My Dear Mr. President: Permit me to thank you for your very gracious answer to myrecent letter in reference to naming the ship about to be built atAlexandria, the Gunston Hall. Kindly express to Mrs. Wilson our appreciation of the honor shehas accorded the memory of George Mason. Mr. President, I have the honor to remain, Very respectfully yours, (Signed) ROBERT C. MASON. 52 Text Appearing After Image: HONORABLE COLIN H. LIVINGSTONE. President, Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation; Vice-President of The American National Bank, Washington, D. C ; President of the National Council and Chairman of the Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America. Correspondence Honorable Colin Livingstone, President:Virginia Shipbuilding Corporation,Alexandria, Va., June 9, 1918. My Dear Sir: Herewith I have the honor to present for the consideration and,I trust, approval of yourself and associates this Memorial uponthe hfe and principles, moral and political, of George Mason,whose memory your Corporation has been pleased to revive bynaming the first ship constructed in your yard at Alexandria, theGunston Hall in honor of his old homestead on the Potomac,in Fairfax County, Virginia. Mount Vernon, the abode of Washington, Monticello, the resi-dence of Jefferson and Gunston Hall the home of Mason consti-tute the patriotic shrines of Virginia whereunto every lover offreedom when visiting the Old Dominion mak Note About Images
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