Report of the Committee for Changing Inscription under Lee Bust, Hall of Fame, United Daughters of the Confederacy, by Mrs. Walter D. Lamar [manuscript], 1948, Sep. 12. 1948.

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Report of the Committee for Changing Inscription under Lee Bust, Hall of Fame, United Daughters of the Confederacy, by Mrs. Walter D. Lamar [manuscript], 1948, Sep. 12. 1948.

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The typescript report of the Committee gives a brief account of changing the inscription beneath Robert E. Lee's bust in the Hall of Fame at New York University from the spurious "Duty is the sublimist word ..." to "There is a true honor-- the glory of duty done ...." The printed report of the President General of the United Daughters of the Confederacy for 1939 accompanies the committee report.

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