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Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, May 26, 1938 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box B: 2, Folder: 22Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1938.05.26
Scope and Contents:
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, 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
Scope and Contents:
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, June 13, 1938 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box B: 2, Folder: 28Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1938.06.13
Scope and Contents:
Dictated typescript letter with handwritten signature and postscript from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand. Mildred Bliss was hoping that Beatrix Farrand would stop in Washington, D.C. on her way to Calfornia as she had much to talk over with her. She thanks her for the recent letter and photographs. She reports the Garden Club met at Dumbarton Oaks and Anne Sweeney gave a talk about the Catalogue House. Royall Tyler leaves for New York and Robert Bliss is going to hear him speak at the...
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Names
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 2
- Bryce, James, 1887-1964 2
- Coles, G. Frederick (George Frederick), 1875- 2
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 2
- Reid, Helen Rogers, 1882-1970 2
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 2
- Beale, Marie Oge, 1880-1956 1
- Delafield, Lewis L. 1
- Forbes, Edward W. (Edward Waldo), 1873-1969 1
- Fulkerson, Mary F. 1
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 1
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 1
- Millikan, Robert Andrews, 1868-1953 1
- Redon, Odilon, 1840-1916 1
- Schelling, Ernest, 1876-1939. 1
- Sessions, Barbara F., 1899-1980 1
- Tyler, Elisina, 1878-1959 1
- Tyler, Royall, 1884-1953 1
- Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937 1 ∧ less
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