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Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Superintendent's Cottage
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Sub-Series — Folder 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
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Seven black and white photographs of The Superintendent’s Cottage, sometimes called the Gardener’s Cottage at Dumbarton Oaks. It fronts S Street, Washington, D.C. located just west of the Service Court gates.In 1923, Mildred Bliss suggested to her architects that they build a duplex to house the butler and the head gardener, William Gray and his family. Following her suggestion, they planned the small gabled house to be a part of the Service Court Quadrangle. However, when the...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, March 28, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.03.28
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss. Beatrix Farrand reports the Palomar Observatory wants help in planting the surrounding great dome of the 200 ft. Hale telescope. She comments "how closely our minds jump in parallel lines." She says it is exciting about Dumbarton's future with the sculpture gallery being built, Christian and Byzantine census, and the interest expressed by Princeton and Harvard Universities.Beatrix Farand thinks the memorial...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, May 26, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 22Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.05.26
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss offers her thoughts on Orion and Bootes chairs, the wall for Lilac Circle, the placement of the Unicorn Lady, adding Dumbarton Oaks and Dumbarton Oaks Park insciptions on the Forsythia arch with an iron gate, cost of designing and having Ruth Havey do some of the design work, new position for the old Forsythia seat, the Star Garden lantern with the Gemini and Corona constellations in the panel, swinging seat for the Terrior...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, August 1, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 36Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.08.01
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to "my very dearest" [Mildred Bliss]. Farrand responds to Mildred's letter of July 23, 1938. She comments on Robert Millikan's illness and the need for Trustees to take on added responsibility at the Huntington Library and Museum. Farrand thinks that the price Helen Reid is charging for Nerines is too much and she will write her. Farrand comments on Casa Dorinda landscaping issues and garden projects and tree work at Dumbarton Oaks.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 3203 S. Street, Washington, D.C., June 18, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 30Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.06.18
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss with responses to the following garden projects: Orion and Bootes chairs for the Star Garden, seat for the Lilac Circle, unicorn lady for Dumbarton Oak Park area, Forsythia arch in the Forsythia Dell, designing at Dumbarton Oaks, lantern in the Star Garden, the swinging seat in the Terrior Column and Enclosure, ironwork colors, William Gray's memorial, and the Music Room wall. She also responds to points on the the Memorandum...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, District of Columbia, October 11, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 47Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.10.11
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to "dearest Dear" [Mildred Bliss] offers her satisfaction with the carving and lettering of the William Gray inscription and offers her itinerary to visit Dumbarton Oaks.
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 Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., November 8, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 48Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.11.08
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to "Garden Twin" [Mildred Bliss] shares how nice it was to be with Mildred and Robert Bliss at Dumbarton Oaks. She offers her suggestion on wording of the Gardeners' memorial for William Gray. She has sent what the rose standards should be at Dumbarton Oaks and will meet with workers at Casa Dorinda and the Blaksley [Santa Barbara Botanic Garden] in a few days. While at Dumbarton Oaks, she and James Bryce accomplished some good work.
Letter from Mildred Bliss, 104 E. 68th Street, New York to Trix, March 16, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.03.16
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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 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, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Trix, January 3, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.01.03
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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.
Letter from Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Trix, February 10, 1938 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.02.10
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Typescript handsigned letter from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand (Trix) offering an activities report on the Catalogue House, Orangerie, dummies for the color of iron work, drawings for the north bay of herb garden, drawings for the Forsythia Dell gate, Star Garden constellations and lettering, and Terrior seat. Rough sketches of the Forsythia Dell gate drafted by Ruth Havey were enclosed with the letter (no longer with letter). She reports that James Bryce will take over as Garden...
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Subject
- Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Gardens -- United States -- Pictorial works 1
- Gardens -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Historic gardens -- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Names
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 7
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 7
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 6
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 5
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 4
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 4
- Coles, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1875- 3
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955. 3
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 3
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 3
- Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 3
- Russell, Ellis 3
- Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 3
- Delafield, Lewis L. 2
- Salter, Arthur, 1881-1975 2
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939. 2
- Schelling, Lucie Howe Draper, 1873-1938 2
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 2
- Acheson, Mildred, Countess of Gosford, 1888-1965 1
- Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956 1
- Carter, John R. (John Ridgely), 1862-1944 1
- Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight 1
- Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974 1
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 1
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 1
- Hubble, Edwin, 1889-1953 1
- Jones, Mary Cadwalader, 1950-1935 1
- Kearney, Matthew, 1909-1973 1
- Kendall, William Mitchell, 1856-1914 1
- McKim, Mead & White 1
- Munro, William Bennett, 1875-1957 1
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 1
- Sessions, Barbara F., 1899-1980 1
- Walter, Clementine Maria, 1881-1967 1 ∧ less
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