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Historical Quarterly High School. It was . had traveled to Lexingto more positive action. organized a prorate by allowing his in hopes of creat- . the plaster statue to be enlargement , a wide paved walk Street. Gov. Charles F. termed this event a r-old sculptor responded song and concluding: my best work. I will f-'".~u...ua.'U'-, portions of the other minor changes. at other public places, with various committee!: write appeals to citizens T. Fuller, but a grow. In a letter to his ectedly concluded: time with a poem describ, a parody of Longfellow'S yor Tobin and the other " Arlington Advocate, February May 21, 1939. Copy in author'S Dal/in and His Paul Revere Statue 35 The greatest creation of my long career, The Equestrian Statue of Paul Revere. A citizens' committee of well known men Selected my model from a competition of ten. On July the fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, The committee, of \\'hich not one now is alive Made a contract with me all legally signed To erect in Copley Square my statue designed To honor the hero whose cry of alarm Aroused every Middlesex village and fam1 For the country folk to be up and to arm. Alas! no statue now graces Copley Square, 'Tis enough to make e\'ell an angel swear But being only human I refuse to despair. And I hope that means will be found somewhere So after the lapse of many a year Due honor be paid to Paul Revere.'6 Later the good-humored DaHin recalled how the poem had moved Mayor Tobin to take interest in his request. "By gum, I think that it must have amused him and started him thinking again about the statue. I'm not exactly a poet but I was able to put a lot of feeling into that poem." •• Finally, in December 1939, the trustees of the George Robert White Fund reconsidered Dallin's requests and ruled that the fund could finance the statue. Immediately, negotiations began between the DaHin family and the White Fund manager, Joseph F. O'Connell. Lawrence DaHin, who was a successful businessman, did most of the bargaining for the family. He asked for a sum in excess of $50,000 to pay for his father's ;;~ lifetime efforts. This amount was in agreement with a fee A.J. Philpott >:;~ had suggested six years earlier. Philpott pointed out that had the original f~ $5,000 appropriated by the city council in 1885 been banked at com,~~; pound interest, the money would have increased to $50,000 by 1933.'8 ;,~:.;:. Sometime during the 1930s Dallin had anticipated that he would ~;;' receive $80,000 or $85,000 for his finished Revere monument. His per':: sonal handwritten accounts tided, "Items of cost-Paul Revere Statue, " covering period of 51 years," list approximate expenses totaling $18,135. . ,One of these expenses was a $1,500 bond on a "contract of $85,000." ~ Other curious figures subtracted from the $85,000 show additional dis': bursements of $6,000 (with a notation of "s") and $30,000 (with a ""Cyrus Dallin's Dream of 50 Years Realized," Boston Globe, January 6, 1940. " Ibid, Ph'l 11 V,C, Dallin, "The Family of Cyrus E. Dallin," p. 69; Lawrence Dallin interview; 1 pott, "Dallin Has Waited 50 Years,"