Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher in response to his letter (D:JT 1941.03.04). Beatrix Farrand elaborates on garden projects enumerated in an earlier letter attempting to answer or express her opinion regarding each. Includes a copy of Beatrix Farrand's letter to Paul Sachs regarding dates for her next visit to Dumbarton Oaks (D:BF 1941.03.08B). She mentions her husband, Max Farrand's is resigning from the Huntington Library which is occupying...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher details the dates of Beatrix Farrand's next planned trip to Dumbarton Oaks and topics she and John Thacher plan to discuss. Specifically, Mildred Bliss' wishes for the Orangery and the drawing room to be part of the discussion. She also plans to work with James Bryce and Anne Sweeney on the Catalogue House while Thacher is away on Harvard business. Beatrix Farrand discusses the health of Robert Bliss and Henri...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature and postscript from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher discusses her feeling grateful for the help resolving the flower bulb issue with David Finley for the National Gallery [of Art]; need for changes to the trefoil gate, changes on the 32nd Street tablet; the historic tablet; and raising of the North Vista grade after speaking with James Bryce. Farrand and Ruth Havey have made progress on project work and agreed on a "trial marriage" for working...

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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher discusses her November trip to Dumbarton Oaks, including tentative dates for her departure and arrival. Beatrix Farrand mentions Anne Sweeney's salary and how she thinks it ought to be paid for in the month of October. She ends the letter by requesting funds be sent to her Agent account to cover the cost of "certain bulbs and other things for Dumbarton."

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher discusses her upcoming November 21-25, 1941 trip to Dumbarton Oaks. She reviews her planned schedule, such as who she will meet with, what they will discuss, and when these meetings will take place. She may go to Alexandria, Virginia to see some land belonging to Dorothy Straight Elmhirst's son, Michael Whitney Straight. Beatrix Farrand encloses copies of two letters she wrote to Newton B. Drury and to Irving...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher clarifies Beatrix Farrand's salary and how she is to be paid. Beatrix Farrand also discusses other budget matters, such as maintenance costs for the gardens that should be accounted for in the budget and making the garden grounds available for school field trips to maintain Dumbarton Oaks' tax exemption for educational purposes. She asks for Alberta Carpenter to send her the expenses for heat, repairs, and...

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Copy of typescript letter, unsigned, from Beatrix Farrand to Newton B. Drury discusses a possible November meeting between Beatrix Farrand and Newton B. Drury about the Dumbarton Oaks Park, specifically she wants to discuss constructing a path. She encloses a letter to Irving C. Root in which she asks Root to speak with John Thacher or James Bryce. She send her and Max Farrand's regards.

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Handwritten letter from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher tells him Max Farrand prefers March's Thesaurus to Roget's. Fifty Easter lilies will be distributed between Mildred Bliss and Thacher and no vegetables. She thanks him again for his hospitality during her recent visit to Dumbarton Oaks.

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with typescript postscript and handwritten signature and postscript from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher expresses her appreciation of their mutual dismay regarding the Harvard Administrative Board's failure to recognize the non-static nature of a garden and its need for constant maintenance. Beatrix Farrand shares her plans for spring and her next trip to Dumbarton Oaks. She addresses the need to spur Anne Sweeney forward on her botanic classes; discusses James Bryce and...

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Typescript note with handwritten signature from Clementine Walter to John Thacher informs him that Beatrix Farrand has had a nasty attack of influenza and Max Farrand thinks it wise for them to postpone their departure from Santa Barbara for a fortnight. He states that Beatrix Farrand will write John Thacher and asks that he tell James Bryce.

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Copy of typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand tells her to order what plants she thinks Robert and Mildred Bliss need. He is worried about the rain and damage to the basement floors of the new wings. His plans are uncertain about getting a regular tree man. He sends his regards to Max and Beatrix Farrand.

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand thanks her letter and receipted bill and her confidential letter of Easter Day. He is delighted that she approved the budget and reports that Paul J. Sachs has also done so. He discusses his contribution to the garden fund; Farrand's plans to visit Dumbarton Oaks; not wanting to put pressure on Mildred Bliss; Francis Baker, a tree man falling from a tree and needing surgery, a tree service taking over his work while he is in the...