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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 Ellis Russell, Tenth Floor, 67 Wall Street, New York to Mrs. Max Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 25, 1942 Digital
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File — Box D: 2, Folder: 50Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:ER 1942.05.25
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Ellis Russell to Beatrix Farrand discusses the amount requested in the budget by the National Park Service for the Dumbarton Oaks Park and offered guidance on the distribution of the money under the direction of a committee appointed of the deed of trust. He has consulted with Mr. Delefield on the matter who thinks that even if a trust was created by the Blisses for Dumbarton Oaks Park, it would probably result in the reduction of the public...
Letter from Lewis L. Delafield, Hawkins, Delafield and Longfellow, 49 Wall Street, New York to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Box 596, Santa Barbara, California, April 9, 1935 Digital
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File — Box E, Folder: 8, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E8:Delafield 1935.04.09
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Lewis Delafield to Mildred Bliss tells her he does not know of the League of Republican Women of the District of Columbia and supports their decision not to draw political attention to Dumbarton Oaks. He tells her that because she was in New York for 51 days in 1934 she would need to pay New York taxes.
REFINE MY RESULTS:
- Subject
- Dumbarton Oaks Park (Washington, D.C.) 1
- Names
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 2
- Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959 2
- Bryce, James, 1887-1964 1
- California. State Relief Administration 1
- Farnam, Thomas Wells, 1877-1943 1
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 1
- Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery 1
- Kelley, May McClure, 1864-1963 1
- Kennerly, Claude S., 1869-1963 1
- Kingsford, Dorothy, approximately 1897- 1
- Kline, Donald L. (landscape architect) 1
- Lucking, Philip J., 1871-1949 1
- Milliken, Agnes, 1887-1970 1
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 1 ∧ less
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