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Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., March 14, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.14
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss (Mildred Bliss) expresses her thoughts on the death of William Gray and the loss to Dumbarton Oaks and his family. Beatrix reports that Ellis Russell has written that James Bryce has been given William Gray's head [gardener] position at Dumbarton. She discusses Mrs. Mudski (Mary Cadwalader Jones) her mother and lantern slides that Robert and Mildred enjoyed, and Elisina Tyler inheriting Sainte Claire [du Chateau] as...
Letter from Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Max Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Mt. Desert, Maine, July 27-29, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 35Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.07.27
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Typescript letter dated July 27, 1938 and July 29, 1938 with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand (Trix) tells her it is distressing news to hear about the illness and surgery of Robert Millikan. Mildred comments on Farrand's letter of July 12 and 14, 1938 on Helen Reid and prices for Nerines, and she lists questions and comments on Casa Dorinda. Mildred Bliss addresses Dumbarton Oaks building new wing and the landscape, seeking out consultation about trees from Van...
Letter from Mildred Bliss to Miss Ruth M. Havey, 25, Fifth Avenue, New York City, January 3, 1940 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 67Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1940.01.03
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Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Ruth Havey responds to Havey's letters of December 14th, 16th, and 17th, 1939. Mildred Bliss reports feeling a lot of pressure in the last days and instructs Havey not to take up any other work. She reports the inscriptions for the forsythia gate pediment have been turned over to Coles; Beatrix Farrand will be meeting with John Thacher to go over modifications to finials; drawings for two coats of arms have been turned over to John Thacher and...
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- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 2
- Bryce, James, 1887-1964 2
- Coles, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1875- 2
- Gray, William, 1881-1937 2
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 2
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 2
- Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956 1
- Delafield, Lewis L. 1
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 1
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 1
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 1
- Jones, Mary Cadwalader, 1950-1935 1
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 1
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 1
- Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 1
- Russell, Ellis 1
- Sessions, Barbara F., 1899-1980 1
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 1
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 1 ∧ less
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