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Letter from Ruth M. Havey, Dumbarton Oaks to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, April 9, 1955 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box E, Folder: 19, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E19:RH 1955.04.09
Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from Ruth Havey to Mildred Bliss informs her William Hughes has the Box Terrace construction well in hand for completion before the Symposium. G. Frederick Coles plans to set the North Court consoles; is going ahead with the lotus panel in the Arbor Terrace and the framework for the Perspective lattice near the Lilac Circle. Havey is returning to New York, but will returning to Washington, D.C. mid-April depending on the work completed by William Hughes. Everett Lank is...

Note and report of garden projects from Ruth Havey to Mrs. Bliss, October 23, 1954 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box L, Folder: 14Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, L:RH 1954.10.23
Scope and Contents: Handwritten note and questions on graph paper from Ruth Havey to Mildred Bliss. Havey asks Mildred to add the answers to questions on projects and mail back to her. List of items to ask Mrs. Bliss include materials, cost, and planning details for rebuilding the arbor; the estimate for the console at the North Court wall at house; gate finials in the North Vista; Wall capping with moulding edge in the North Vista; Doria benches in the North Vista finished as is; New Doria bench in the East...