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FILE — Box: H, Folder: 2, item: 5 Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H2:various 1938.07.15-18

Letters from Robert Woods Bliss to various recipients about Barbara Session's travel for book acquisitions, July 15-18, 1938 Digital

Letters from Robert Woods Bliss to various recipients about Barbara Session's travel for book acquisitions, July 15-18, 1938
Letters from Robert Woods Bliss to various recipients about Barbara Session's travel for book acquisitions, July 15-18, 1938

Scope and Contents

Copies of nine typescript letters, five in English and four in French to various recipients informing them that Barbara Sessions, Dumbarton Oaks Librarian, would be traveling to area to acquire books and publications for holes in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and asks for the recipient to meet with her and offer advice or offer help to her if needed. Letters sent to Professor Wolfgang Friedrich "Fritz" Volbach, Vatican Library, Rome; His Excellency, The Honorable Wm [William] C. Bullett, American Ambassador, Paris; His Excellency, The Honorable William Phillips, American Ambassador, Rome; James Hazen Hyde [addressed to Caleb], Esquire, 18, rue Adolf-Yvon, Paris; Monsieur Louis Gillet, Membre de l'Academie Francaise, Conservateur Fondatin Jacquemart-Andre, 17, rue Bonapart, Chaalis, France; Monsieur Georges Salles, Conservateur du Departement des Arts Asiatiques, Musee du Louvre, Paris; Monsieur J.J. Marquet de Vasselot, 3, Villa Madrid, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris; Monsieur D. David-Weill, Membre de l'Institut, President du Conseil des Musees Nationaux, 14 rue de Chezy, Neuilly-sur-Seine; His Excellency, The Honorable Leland Harrison, American Minister, Berne.

Barbara Sessions was given these letters for her travel to Europe.

Dates

  • Creation: July 15-18, 1938

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials chiefly in English with a few items in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, or Spanish.

Conditions Governing Access

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For research queries, contact the staff of Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives (library@doaks.org).

Extent

23 boxes (Approximately 2632 items including correspondence, expense reports, invoices, estimates, deposit records, book lists, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and plant lists.)

Repository Details

Part of the Dumbarton Oaks Repository

Dumbarton Oaks holds archival collections in its Rare Book Collection, Image Collections and Fieldwork Archives, and the Dumbarton Oaks Archives. The collections include: the papers of noteworthy scholars in the three fields that Dumbarton Oaks supports (Byzantine, Pre-Columbian, and Garden and Landscape); image collections depicting objects or sites of topical interest to scholars in the three fields; Beatrix Farrand’s personal archive of letters and original drawings that document the development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden; and institutional records and architectural plans and drawings documenting the history of Dumbarton Oaks. For more information about hours and to make an appointment to consult any of the collections listed here, please fill out the request form: https://www.doaks.org/research/library-archives/schedule-an-appointment

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