Griswold , Ralph E. (Ralph Esty),, 1894-1981
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1894 - 1981
Biography
Ralph Esty Griswold was a landscape architect. He was born Warren, Ohio, August 22, 1894 and married Dorothy Elizabeth Griffith, 1920. He lived in Williamsburg, Virginia and was consulting landscape architect for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. He died in 1981.
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mary L. Wilkens, Dumbarton Oaks, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington, 7, D.C., December 23, 1959 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Sub-Group:
Alden Hopkins
File — Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1959.12.23
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Alden Hopkins to Mary L. Wilkens (misspelled Wilkins) tells her that Ralph Griswold has advised him that she is now the librarian. He asks her to check if there are any detailed illustrations for a "beeste" which were found in English Tudor gardens between 1530-1600. He needs one typical example. He tell her he can be billed for the photostat. Handwritten notes on letter: In lower left corner: "Hampton Court, History of Garden Art, Vol. I, p....
Dumbarton Oak Garden, Ellipse
Sub-Series — Folder 15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001Scope and Contents:
Twenty four black and white photographs and 4 color photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Ellipse.The plans for the Ellipse were the result of close collaboration between Beatrix Farrand and Mildred Bliss. The basic outline of the design first occurred to Mildred Bliss as a child, and she consulted on the original design and all subsequent changes. The Ellipse began as a loose oval hedge of tall, rumpled boxwoods about fifteen to twenty feet high. The hedge followed the slope...
Letter from Kay Halle, 3001 Dent Place N.W., Washington 7, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, August 14, 1960 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box E, Folder: 4, item: 57Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:Halle 1960.08.14
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Handwritten letter from Kay Halle to Mildred Bliss tells her "I've just sent off some data on Mr. Griswold's M.S. to Mr. Milton Fox of Abrams pubishing house. I suggested that should he wish to contact Mr. Griswold, he had best write to you. Let us hope for happy results.
Letter from McGeorge Bundy, Harvard University, 5 University Hall, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Morgan and Company, 14 Place Vendome, Paris 1, France, August 10, 1956 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
Fellowships
File — Box E, Folder: 12, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E12:Bundy 1956.08.10
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from McGeorge Bundy, Dean of Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University to Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss informs them of a unanimous recommendation for the appointment of the first research fellow in Landscape Architecture, Ralph E. Griswold. He offers Griswold's professional background. He tells them that Griswold wrote a letter to Mr. Rapuano on July 4, 1956 expressing his willingness to be considered for the appointment. A copy of...
Letter from Virginia Lewis, Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania to Marvin Ross, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., October 9, 1957 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Mildred Bliss Office Files, R-Z
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Sub-Group:
Marvin C. Ross
File — Box H, Folder: 7b, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:1957.10.09
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Virginia Lewis, faculty at the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Marvin C. Ross at Dumbarton Oaks informing him that Walter [Walter Read Hovey], head of the Fine Arts Department is in Sante Fe, [New Mexico] and will be back about October 25th. His plans after that, so far as she can gather, are to be in Pittsburgh for two weeks then go to London. She thinks he still wants to travel, but is not...