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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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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box B: 2, Folder: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.14
Scope and Contents:
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, 104 E. 68th Street, New York to Trix, March 16, 1938 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box B: 2, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.03.16
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Trix (Beatrix Farrand) telling her she read the Casa Dorinda notes on the train to New York and thought it was an excellent report.She informs Beatrix Farrand that plans are being made for the room southwest of the Dumbarton Oaks Music Room and Kenneth Conant of Harvard University has visited Dumbarton Oaks twice each for three days working the dummy, plans, and details of the new room. James Bryce has moved the...
Letter from Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Trix, January 3, 1938 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box B: 2, Folder: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.01.03
Scope and Contents:
Nine page handwritten and signed letter on Dumbarton Oaks letterhead from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand (Trix) discusses the death and funeral service of William Gray, Garden Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. Mildred Bliss shares guests who will be visiting and ongoing diplomatic activities.
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Names
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 2
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 2
- Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 2
- Acheson, Mildred, Countess of Gosford, 1888-1965 1
- Carter, John R. (John Ridgely), 1862-1944 1
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955. 1
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 1
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 1
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 1
- Jones, Mary Cadwalader, 1950-1935 1
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 1
- Salter, Arthur, 1881-1975 1
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939. 1
- Schelling, Lucie Howe Draper, 1873-1938 1
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 1 ∧ less
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