Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . t instead of Mr. Clevelands words,he decided to incorporate the last words writ-ten in his friends autobiography. Says : I designed the front panel with a simplepalm border, and the name, birth, and deathdate of Joseph Jefferson above—and below, hisquotation on immortality. I modelled this and had it carried out frommy own design and cast into bronze. One day while at Crows Nest, I said toMrs. Jefferson, 11 wish I had time to modela bas-relief to place at the back of the brought out the bronze cast of M. Rabil-lon, made many yea
Intimate recollections of Joseph Jefferson . t instead of Mr. Clevelands words,he decided to incorporate the last words writ-ten in his friends autobiography. Says : I designed the front panel with a simplepalm border, and the name, birth, and deathdate of Joseph Jefferson above—and below, hisquotation on immortality. I modelled this and had it carried out frommy own design and cast into bronze. One day while at Crows Nest, I said toMrs. Jefferson, 11 wish I had time to modela bas-relief to place at the back of the brought out the bronze cast of M. Rabil-lon, made many years ago as a much youngerman. I told Mrs. Jefferson that I would takea mould of the head in clay, and remodel it, andadd to it a medallion shaped to suit my ideasof form. I did so. The original cast was inoval form, plain, without any border. I shapedit differently, like a round medallion, borderedwith wreaths of oak and ivy and ribbon-ated. Mr. Rabillons name appears in the cast atthe base of the medallion, with Mr. Walkersinitials Photo by Thos. Jefferson REAR VIEW OF BOULDER THE BAS RELIEF SHOWN IN THIS PICTURE WAS ORIGINALLYMODELED BY LEONCE RABILLON, AND THE DECORATION SUR-ROUNDING IT WAS DESIGNED BY C. A. WALKER JOSEPH JEFFERSON 365 In the early days of his pilgrimage to CapeCod, Mr. Jefferson became enamoured of thelovely country. As he waded the trout streamswith an old Indian guide who had once actedin the same capacity to Daniel Webster, ordrove through the wooded roads, rowed andfished in the placid water of Wakeby, Scorton,Big and Little Sandy Ponds, he remained al-ways conscious of the charms of the place. Heonce expressed the wish that some day he mightsleep in the sandy soil of which he was so fond,and two years before he was laid in it, he se-lected the particular spot. It was most pictur-esque, although only a little country cemetery,nestled close to hill and woodland, just asNature made it, and called Bay View, on ac-count of the glimpse of the sparkl
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