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Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 3101 "R" Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., February 13, 1940 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 76Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1940.02.13
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to "Blessed One" [Mildred Bliss] advises Robert Woods Bliss not to join the Torrey Botanical Club. She updates Mildred on a conversation she had with Claude Kennerly about the tree cutting by the California State Relief Administration. Beatrix will take a stab at drafting an agreement which she will pass by Ellis Russell and Lewis Delafield. Max Farrand thanks Mildred for her commendation on the Friends of the Huntington Library report. She...
Letter from Mildred Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to Trix, February 6, 1940 Digital
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File — Box B: 2, Folder: 74Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1940.02.06
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand (Trix) discusses neither she nor Robert would sign the current California Relief Administration's Tree Cutting Agreement for Casa Dorinda, and asks Beatrix to work out a solution. She extends her thanks to Max Farrand for his Friends of the Huntinton Library report. Mildred Bliss reports James Bryce left his family on vacation. Before he left she discusses with him holding off on the Ellipse boxwood...