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Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mary L. Wilkens, Dumbarton Oaks, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington, 7, D.C., December 23, 1959 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks

File — Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1959.12.23

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Alden Hopkins to Mary L. Wilkens (misspelled Wilkins) tells her that Ralph Griswold has advised him that she is now the librarian. He asks her to check if there are any detailed illustrations for a "beeste" which were found in English Tudor gardens between 1530-1600. He needs one typical example. He tell her he can be billed for the photostat. Handwritten notes on letter: In lower left corner: "Hampton Court, History of Garden Art, Vol. I, p....

Dumbarton Oak Garden, Ellipse

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Sub-Series — Folder 15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001

Scope and Contents: Twenty four black and white photographs and 4 color photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Ellipse.The plans for the Ellipse were the result of close collaboration between Beatrix Farrand and Mildred Bliss. The basic outline of the design first occurred to Mildred Bliss as a child, and she consulted on the original design and all subsequent changes. The Ellipse began as a loose oval hedge of tall, rumpled boxwoods about fifteen to twenty feet high. The hedge followed the slope...

Letter from Virginia Lewis, Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania to Marvin Ross, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., October 9, 1957 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks

File — Box H, Folder: 7b, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:1957.10.09

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Virginia Lewis, faculty at the Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Marvin C. Ross at Dumbarton Oaks informing him that Walter [Walter Read Hovey], head of the Fine Arts Department is in Sante Fe, [New Mexico] and will be back about October 25th. His plans after that, so far as she can gather, are to be in Pittsburgh for two weeks then go to London. She thinks he still wants to travel, but is not...

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Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mary L. Wilkens, Dumbarton Oaks, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington, 7, D.C., December 23, 1959 Digital

Dumbarton Oak Garden, Ellipse

Letter from Virginia Lewis, Henry Clay Frick Fine Arts Department, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh 13, Pennsylvania to Marvin Ross, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., October 9, 1957 Digital

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