Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd St., Washington 7, D.C., July 2, 1957 Digital
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss asking them if they meet any members of the Stoclet family and they ask about his Byzantine enamel book, please tell them it is a worthwhile project. Madam Feron-Stoclet has sent him a gift of photographs of the Byzantine enamels in her collection. He is in correspondence with Philippe Stoclet, who has three [enamels], all of them important. Marvin reports there is a third member of the family from whom there has been no word, but he feels they will come through in good time.
"We are both reading Royall's [Royall Tyler] Charles the Fifth [The Emperor Charles the Fifth by Royall Tyler, foreword by Carl J. Burckhardt, Fairlawn, N.J. : Essential Books Inc., 1956] which I find stirring. How brilliant he has written and brought all his own life into it."
He reports that one of the new postcards went on sale today.
Dates
- Creation: July 2, 1957
Creator
- Ross, Marvin C. (Marvin Chauncey), 1904-1977 (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
- Ross, Marvin C. (Marvin Chauncey), 1904-1977 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Recipient, Person)
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 (Recipient, 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