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Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., May 25, 1942 Digital
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File — Box D: 2, Folder: 49Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1942.05.25
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature by secretary for Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher send him a carbon copy of a letter being sent to Irving Root, National Park Service telling him to call a meeting of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Advisory Committee and have Donald Kline and Newton Drury attend if possible. This will be the first time one of the Blisses can be in attendence. Secretary likely Isabelle M. Stover.
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, Post Office Box 1140, Santa Barbara, California to Irving C. Root, Superintendent, National Capital Parks, Washington, D.C., March 10, 1942 Digital
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File — Box D: 2, Folder: 18Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1942.03.10
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Copy of a typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Irving C. Root asks that that he verify the existence and composition of the Dumbarton Oaks Park Advisory Committee as Mildred Bliss is uncertain of its status. She asks if he would arrange an April 14, a meeting with Mr. Kline, the architect of the Capital Parks, to review the walk on Clifton Hill, the possible gift of the stone seats and their placing, and the widening of the stream path, and encourages Mr. Root's attendance at the...
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, Post Office Box 1140, Santa Barbara, California to Newton B. Drury, National Park Service, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C. Digital
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File — Box D: 2, Folder: 33Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1942.04.02
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Copy of typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Newton Drury thanks him for his note and formal word of the organization of the Dumbarton Oaks Park [Advisory] Committee. She accepts the position title of "landscape architect." She hopes to visit Dumbarton Oaks in April and meet Mr. [Irving] Root and Mr. Kline.