Letter from Lanning Roper, Park House, Onslow Square, London, S.W.7. to Mildred Bliss, February 23, 1959 Digital
Scope and Contents
Typescript letter on letterhead with handwritten note and signature from Lanning Roper to Mildred Bliss discussing an enclosed article on the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. He suggests that new black and white photographs be taken of the garden to be used with the article and suggests a photographer at Williamsburg that Alden Hopkins may arrange or the photographer at Longwood Gardens [Pennsylvania]. He lists suggested photographs in the garden.
The article will be published in a Royal Horticultural Society publication and reprints could be offered for sale at the entrance desk in the [Dumbarton Oaks] Museum.
He adds a handwritten note asking her to show this draft article to Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the garden.
The article was published in the July 1959 issue: Roper, Lanning. "Dumbarton Oaks: a Great American Garden." Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society. Vol. LXXXIV, Part 7. (July 1959).
Dates
- Creation: February 23, 1959
Creator
- Roper, Lanning (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials chiefly in English with a few items in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, or Spanish.
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Extent
23 boxes (Approximately 2632 items including correspondence, expense reports, invoices, estimates, deposit records, book lists, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and plant lists.)Creator
- Roper, Lanning (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Recipient, Person)
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 (Person)
- Hopkins, Alden, 1905-1960 (Person)
- Kearney, Matthew, 1909-1973 (Person)
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