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Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Dumbarton Oaks Park
Dumbarton Oaks Garden, East Lawn
Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Fellows' Quarters and Yard
Exchange of letters between Arline B. Newcomb, 800 Academy Street, Kelso, Washington and Anne Sweeney, December 9- 29, 1944 Digital
Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, Santa Barbara, California, Feburary 21, 1946 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., March 26, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California to Paul J. Sachs, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., February 18, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California to Paul J. Sachs, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, December 21, 1940 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Director's House, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, 1650 Orlando Road, San Marino, California to John S. Thacher, January 29, 1941 Digital
Handwritten letter from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher declines an invitation to listen to lectures by Henri Focillon, Senior Research Fellow at Dumbarton Oaks and asks John Thacher to convey her regrets. She ends the letter with a report of a telephone conversation with Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, and mentions Mr. Bliss' slow recovery from a cold.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Irving C. Root, National Capital Parks, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1941 Digital
Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Irving C. Root suggests dates for a meeting in November between John Thacher, Irving C. Root, and Beatrix Farrand about the Dumbarton Oaks Park. She is asking James Bryce to stake out a path over Clifton Hill.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter with handwritten signature by secretary for Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher send him a carbon copy of a letter being sent to Irving Root, National Park Service telling him to call a meeting of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Advisory Committee and have Donald Kline and Newton Drury attend if possible. This will be the first time one of the Blisses can be in attendence. Secretary likely Isabelle M. Stover.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., May 28, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher tells him she is sending the agenda for the upcoming meeting with Robert and Mildred Bliss. Copies of the letter are also being sent to G. Frederick Coles, James Bryce, and Anne Sweeney. She is looking forward to the visit.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., June 12, 1942 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., August 5, 1942 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., August 10, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher tells him she sent James Bryce and the bulb dealer an air mail letter about the National Gallery [of Art] not needing flower bulbs. Farrand wants to know from Bryce what plant needs the Blisses will have next winter and what will be the financial arrangement buying and growing them. Farrand is not mourning over the departed red oak tree as she never liked it.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., August 21, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher thanks him for giving the all clear to order plants for Robert and Mildred Bliss. She wonders if the brookside has submerged in mud due to all the rain. She feels he has been a "wise young judge" as executive officer of Dumbarton Oaks.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., August 26, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher shares telegram response from Robert and Mildred Bliss about the museum and historic tablets. She is writing Ruth Havey to share their response and schedule a time to discuss it further at Reef Point.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., September 8, 1942 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., June 22, 1942 Digital
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher asks the result of the meeting with the Dumbarton Oaks Park Committee Meeting and if any progress was made with Irving Root and Donald L. Kline. She inquires if Robert and Mildred Bliss will return to Washington, D.C. next winter and where they will live. She hopes the scheme for the historic tablet on R Street meets his approval and offers her opinion on it and the construction in the wall.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., May 20, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., June 17, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., May 14, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Eastward Cottage, Camden, Maine, August 7, 1941 Digital
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 28, 1941 Digital
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- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 58
- Bryce, James, 1887-1964 40
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 31
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 25
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 16
- Root, Irving C., 1891-1973 13
- Sachs, Paul J. (Paul Joseph), 1878-1965 10
- Coles, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1875- 9
- Gray, William, 1881-1937 9
- Russell, Ellis 9
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 8
- National Gallery of Art (U.S.) 8
- Kline, Donald L. (landscape architect) 7
- Drury, Newton Bishop, 1889-1978 6
- Sessions, Barbara F., 1899-1980 6
- Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 6
- Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955. 5
- Delafield, Lewis L. 5
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 5
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 5
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939. 5
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 5
- Finley, David E. (David Edward) 4
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 4
- Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 4
- Clark, Ethel Burnet, 1878-1964 3
- Focillon, Henri, 1881-1943 3
- Santa Barbara Botanic Garden 3
- Schelling, Lucie Howe Draper, 1873-1938 3
- Stover, Isabelle M., 1905-1987 3
- Tyler, William Royall 3
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 3
- Boulanger, Nadia, 1887-1979. 2
- Bryce, Isabella W., 1889-1965 2
- California. State Relief Administration 2
- Carpenter, Alberta S., 1879-1872 2
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 2
- Hale, George Ellery, 1868-1938 2
- Kennerly, Claude S., 1869-1963 2
- Lapsley, Gaillard Thomas 2
- Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 2
- Salter, Arthur, 1881-1975 2
- Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971 2
- Tyler, Bettine Mary, 1910-1987 2
- Walter, Clementine Maria, 1881-1967 2
- Weiss, Soma, 1899-1942 2
- Acheson, Mildred, Countess of Gosford, 1888-1965 1
- Baker, Francis A. (Francis Alexander), 1907-1966 1
- Balsan, Consuelo Vanderbilt 1
- Balsan, Jacques 1
- Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956 1
- Beckett, Edwin, 1885-1967 1
- Blake, Robert Pierpont, 1886-1950 1
- Bland, Elizabeth M., 1912-1997 1
- Carter, John R. (John Ridgely), 1862-1944 1
- Conant, James Bryant, 1893-1978 1
- Coolidge, Victoria Stuart Tytus, 1909-1996 1
- Cutting, Olivia Peyton Murray, 1955-1949 1
- Der Nersessian, Sirarpie, 1896-1989 1
- Du Pont, Henry Francis, 1880-1969 1
- Dushkin, Louise Rorimer, 1911-1996 1
- Dushkin, Samuel, 1891-1976 1
- Elmhirst, Dorothy Payne Whitney Straight 1
- Elmhirst, L. K. (Leonard Knight), 1893-1974 1
- Farnam, Thomas Wells, 1877-1943 1
- Focillon, Marguerite H. 1
- Gay, Matilda, 1855-1943 1
- Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1
- Hotel Pennsylvania (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Hughes, Charles Evans, 1862-1948 1
- James, Olivia Murray Cutting, 1892-1963 1
- Jones, Mary Cadwalader, 1950-1935 1
- King, Frederic Rhinelander, 1887-1972 1
- Lassiter, William, 1867-1959 1
- Lubbock, Percy, 1879-1965 1
- Milliken, Agnes, 1887-1970 1
- Morris, Persis Warren, 1916-2004 1
- Morris, Stephen van Cortlandt, 1909-1984 1
- New Haven Lawn Club Association 1
- Newcomb, Arline B. 1
- Oregon Bulb Farms 1
- Paderewski, Ignace Jan, 1860-1941 1
- Pratt, Harold Irving, 1877-1939 1
- Pratt, Harriet Barnes, 1879-1969 1
- Princeton University 1
- Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916 1
- Riddle, Dewey S., 1884-1975 1
- Rothschild, Germaine de 1
- Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh 1
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 1
- Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) 1
- Sachs, Meta, 1879-1960 1
- Taylor, Charles H. (Charles Holt), 1899-1984 1
- Thompson, Harry T., 1909-1960 1
- University of Chicago 1
- Yale University 1
- de Graaff, Jan, 1903-1989 1 ∧ less