Field Notebook: Florida, New York, Quebec. 1936, 1937, 1938, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942
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Tuesday March 29 - 1938 Richmond, Virginia. After six this morning we was travel travel and train is held up. We got to Rich- mmd at 10:30 instead of 8:15 A.M. Mr Billamstry Tracy. Visited once again the Capitol building of Virginias other or much history was made. There is sculpture of Genl Washington about 3x size by Houdon of France. Close by is a bust of Thomas Jefferson by the same artist, and it's quite different from the sculp- ture full length by Valentine at the Jefferson Hotel. Put up at the Jefferson Hotel, the grand- est hotel in all of my experience. Openers to marble pillars are all imitation - painted marble. This hotel was built many years ago by a citizen of Richmond be- a citizen. He came, had no good hotel. He put in his money expecting it to help the city. His now run by the Hotel company have aside hotel at Baltimore and another at Norfolk.