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Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, December 3, approximately 1960 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box H, Folder: 7b, item: 36Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1960.12.03
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Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss with a typescript copy of the apocryphal legend of the ascent of Alexander the Great published by R.S. Loomis "Alexander's celestial journey" in The Burlington Magazine, no. CLXXXI, Volume XXXII, April 1918, pl. 136-140. Marvin thought Mildred would enjoy the story. Marvin adds "subject cut intaglio on a gold ring in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. This is the only known example of the subject in goldsmith's work."He tells...
Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss,1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., November 6, approximately 1957 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box H, Folder: 7b, item: 33Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1957.11.06
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Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss sending a list of museum personnel whose names he secured last summer. He has made copies for Dumbarton Oaks and the Fogg Museum. He tells Mildred he is enclosing a letter from [Etienne] Coche de la Ferle [curator at The Louvre] after he "gave him names of curators in Moscow and Leningrad before he left on his mission. It shows the usefulness of such a list." The letter from Coche de la Ferle is no longer with Marvin's letter....
Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., June 28, approximately 1957 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
File — Box H, Folder: 7b, item: 29Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1957.06.28
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Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss to inform them of the latest developments on the eve of their departure. He reports the local tourist agency called him to say they had received a cable from Moscow, "sent letter June 22 concerning Ross." When the letter gets to him, he will know his fate. The last letter from the Hermitage took 16 days and the last letter the tourist agency got from Moscow took 28 days.If [Etienne] Coche de la Ferte...