Scope and Contents: Correspondence between William A. Jackson and Mildred Bliss regarding the purchase of an Emily Dickinson book and decorating of the Emily Dickinson Room at the Harvard University Houghton Library. Mildred Bliss and other committee members provided financial support for this effort. Includes correspondence discussing the purchase of the Virigina Woolf manuscript diaries, the Thomas Whittemore evocation by Mildred Bliss, and furniture selected from the Emily Dickinson house for the Emily...

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...

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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Memorandum from C. Isabel Denison to Mildred Bliss about a telephone call from Madame Poplawska-Leineweber, wife of a professor at American University asking if she can offer two squirrels she has in her yard to Dumbarton Oaks to prevent them being killed by dogs or cats. A follow-up handwritten note to memorandum indicates Madame Poplawska-Leineweber did not realize how many squirrels were already at Dumbarton Oaks when she made the request.

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Handwritten note on U.S. Governement office memorandum stationary from John Gilman d'Arcy Paul to Isabel Denison asking if there was a copy in the botany library of the 1st edition of Bartram's Travels. A typescript copy of a catalog card is included. A copy of a typescript letter from Isabel Denison informing Paul that Mildred Bliss would be delighted to see the first edition of Bartrum.

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Handwritten note from C. Isabel Denison to Ellis Russel asks him to renew the subscription to Landscape Architecture for two years. Typescript information indicates a payment was sent for the subscription renewal, September 22, 1958.

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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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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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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison asks her when Mildred Bliss might be able to meet with her to talk book restoration work while she is in Washington, D.C. October 17-21. She offers various days and times she could be available.

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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she is planning on meeting with Mildred Bliss on the afternoon of October 31. She hopes to have work on the Temple of Flora Thornton book finished to bring along with the Costas.

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Handwritten postcard from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her the books arrived safely.

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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she is moving from Ithaca, N.Y. to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She will pack up the Dumbarton Oaks books she is working on and drive them to Pittsfield.

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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her the Coleridge book arrived safely. The leather is so thin and fragile it may not be able to be restored, but she will try.

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Copy of typescript letter from Isabel Denison to George H.M. Lawrence thanks him on behalf of Mildred Bliss for sending volume one of the Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, the bibliography of Mrs. Hunt's botanical books. A card sent with the bibliography asks for acknowledgment when book is received.