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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 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, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California, January 23, 1940 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 70Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1940.01.23
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand (Trix) thanks her for coming to Dumbarton Oaks. She offers the latest news of James Bryce and plantings regarding a willow on the northwest side of the Box Walk, two small oaks on the South Lawn, replacements in the yew hedge, and replacements in the North Vista rejected and replacement in the Ellipse ordered. The Service gate wall and wall north of the Institute will begin and lowering of the architrave in...