至连纪念堂的建筑模型都没有,它不断地募集捐款,却没有具体解释这笔捐款会用在什么地方。这很令公众困扰,也削弱了捐款者的积极性。乔安·沃(英语:JoanWaugh)注意到了当时公众的这种感受;在《格兰特:美国英雄,美国迷思》(英語:Grant: American hero American myth)一书中,她写到:
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New York, 2005. Craveri, Benedetta. The Age of Conversation. Trans.Teresa Waugh. New York: New York Review Books,2005. Benet Davetian "The History and Meaning
Context, 1270–1350. Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 1982. ISBN 0-85115-170-1. Waugh, S.L. England in the Reign of Edward III. Cambridge: Cambridge University