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Book order from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, June 1948 Digital
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File — Box B: 7, Folder: 118Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:IMS 1948.06.xx
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Copy of typescript book order from Beatrix Farrand to Thomas Thorp, bookseller. Typescript note at top by Isabelle Stover and intended for Anne Sweeney. Anne Sweeney acknowledges receipt of book order in letter to Isabelle Stover, B:AS 1948.06.15. Books ordered are: "Lilies for English gardens" by Gertrude Jekyll; "The praise of gardens" by Albert Forbes Sieveking; "Flower grouping in English, Scotch & Irish gardens" by Margaret H. Waterfield; "The lilac" by Susan Delano McKelvey; and...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., September 8, 1941 Digital
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File — Box D: 1, Folder: 67Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1941.09.08
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher reviews subjects Beatrix Farrand and Anne Sweeney discussed on her visit to Bar Harbor, Maine, including the route for Anne Sweeney's Garden Guide tours at Dumbarton Oaks, as well as educational materials needed for her lectures and exhibits. She mentions areas of the garden that should be for the use of those studying or living at Dumbarton Oaks, but suggests in the autumn the Green Garden and Swimming Pool be...
Letter from IMS, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Miss Sweeney, November 1, 1948 Digital
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File — Box B: 8, Folder: 47Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:IMS 1948.11.01
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The Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives is a collection of over 6278 individual items of textual materials, drawings, and photographs that document the creation and development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. between 1920-1979. Robert Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss purchased the 53 acre property in 1920 known as "The Oaks" and later as Dumbarton Oaks, and within a year they hired Beatrix Farrand, a landscape gardener, to design a garden for the property that combined French,...
List of books in garden information library at Dumbarton Oaks, February 1949 Digital
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File — Box G, Folder: 1d, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, G1d:BL Feb 1949-01
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Copy of typescript list of books in the Garden Information Library at Dumbarton Oaks. Written at top in pencil: "Office copy of book list, 2 copies to Reef Point, 1 to Mrs. Farrand, and 1 to Mrs Stover, her secretary, 2/16/[19]49. List probably created by Anne Sweeney.
Receipt for payment to Doubleday Company by Isabelle Stover, October 29, 1946 Digital
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File — Box G, Folder: 2c, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, G2c:IMS 1946.10.29
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Account of check payment for $3.81 by Isabelle Stover to Doubleday Company, October 29, 1946 drawn on the Chemical Bank and Trust Company for the "Gardener's bug book" for use by Anne Sweeney and charged to account of Dumbarton Oaks (Harvard University) book account.