Denison, C. Isabel

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Correspondence between C.I. (Isabel) Denison, Keeper of the Founder's Room and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Mrs. Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. Clyde H. Myers), a bookbinder and restorer of rare books at the Cornell University Library. The letters discuss books sent to Fleda Straight Myers for binding and restoring. Includes an interoffice communication between C.I. Denison and John Thacher, Dumbarton Oak Director regarding insurance for the garden books.

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Copy of a typescript letter from Isabel Denison and the editor, Album XG, Metropolitan Museum of Art about Mildred Bliss' interest in a Maria Sibilla Merian's "Butterflies and red flowers" print published in the pamphlet on women artists that they produced. She requests additional information on the source of the material. On the letter written at the bottom is "Source given". Letter also offers some biographical history on Maria Sibilla Merian.

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Copy of typescript letter from C. Isabel Denison to Arthur Harmount Graves asks that a duplicate check sent to him be returned.

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from from C.I. [C. Isabel] Denison, Keeper of the Founders' Room to Helen Clifford, President of the Georgetown Garden Club informs her Mrs. [Mildred] Bliss wishes to offer to the Georgetown Garden Club some books and pamphlets: Wood and garden, Gertrude Jekyll, 1901; Wildflower guide, N.W. & Midland U.S., Edgar T. Wherry, 1948; Fifty-five rare books from the botanical library of Mrs. R.A. Hunt, 1949; and Botanical books, prints & drawings from the...

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Copy of a typescript letter from Isabel Denison to Mr. Henri Rossignol informing him that she would like to order from his catalogue, No. 9, William Paul's "The Rose Garden." Upon its arrival at Dumbarton Oaks, a bank draft will be forwarded for the required amount.

Scope and Contents: Correspondence and financial records like receipts and invoices between Mildred Bliss or her secretary and individuals and corporations whose last name or name begins with "R". Some correspondence involve the acquisition, purchase or bookbinding of books or library items. Individuals or corporations include: Riggs National Bank, Rodale Books Incorporated, Russian Orthodox Church (St. John the Baptist), Charles Ratton, Nicholas Rauch, S.J., T. Rogers &amp Company, Ltd., Ludwig...

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she returned from a three week trip to the Midwest. She will look for the Fulkens catalog card. She asks questions for Mrs. Bliss to answer before she begins some restoration work.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison discusses the return of three books via Railway Express so they can be reviewed by Mildred Bliss before work is done. Myers provides a progress update on other books, and she received a check for minor work on two books.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison asks what days Mildred Bliss would be available for discuss restoration work on some rare books.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she did not find the catalog card for the Fulchens book. She hopes her letter with questions about book restoration work reaches Mildred Bliss before she leaves next week.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Staight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her about the move to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She reports doing considerable work on the Dumbarton Oaks books.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her there is no volume number on th de Leth.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison encloses papers for the fly leaves for restoration work the Thornton two volumes and the Costa volume for Mildred Bliss to approve.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison updates her on the progress of the restoration work on the books sent to her.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells you she would like to receive the next batch of books to restore. Her teachers will be visiting from Paris in August, and she would like to review the restoration work for the books with them.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison reports that the next batch of books have not arrived, and she is concerned. She reports on the restoration work done on the Costas and Temple of Flora book.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her the four volumes sent to her a month or more ago arrived safely. Myers has looked them over and would like to talk with Mildred Bliss and Denison as to what is to be done. The Costa books are nearly finished and the Thornton still is waiting for the brown morocco.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she will be in Washington, D.C. October 19-21 and hopes to see Mildred Bliss on Monday. She would like to return to Ithaca on October 23. An assistant in the bindery will be driving down with her. The Costas volumes are finished and she has the morocco leather in the right color for the Thornton.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Mildred Bliss discusses progress on restoration work for books that she has. She is awaiting instructions on the leather and paper for three of the books.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. C.H. Myers) to Isabel Denison tells her she is still restoring rare books in Ithaca, New York. Most her her work is for Cornell University Library, but she also does outside work. She tells Denison that she would need to see the books to provide an estimate of the cost. The work she does is painstaking and she does not like to feel hurried. Georgia Coffin, the rare book librarian know the quality of her work if she wants to write her.

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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison offers her an estimate for book restoration work and a description of what she would do for the three volumes.

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Copy of a typescript letter from Isabel Denison to Dr. Reed C. Rollins, of Gray Herbarium in Cambridge, Massachusetts asking if he has any information on Balthasar Cattrani as Mildred Bliss has recently acquired five volumes containing 300 of his flower paintings. Denison reports that a catalogue of Mrs. Roy Hunt's (Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt) states that his plan to have a book published from his originals never materialized.

Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to C. Isabel Denison (Keeper of the Founders' Room at Dumbarton Oaks) offering the French designs for garden vases for her reference library. He bought them for study purposes and found them useful at the time. He suggests they could be put in vanila envelopes in the reference room for students to use. He says these designs were actually used, the Walters Art Gallery own a pair in marble after one of the Pelitot? designs. Designs no longer with...

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Cppy of typescript letter from the Librarian in the Founders' Room (possibly C. Isabel Denison) to Harold Donaldson Eberlein asks for an inscribed and autographed copy of "Diary of Independence Hall" be sent to Mildred Bliss.

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Handwritten letter from V.S. Olive to Isabel Denison includes a bill to Mildred Bliss for work on 18 pieces of furniture.