Letter from Ruth M. Havey to Philip Finelli, District Ornamental Iron Works, 415 K Street NW, Washington, D.C., December 7, 1951 Digital
Scope and Contents
Copy of typescript letter from Ruth Havey to Philip Finelli, District Ornamental Iron Works telling him that Mildred Bliss has authorized her to accept his figure of $1558 for the wrought iron rail for the North Vista at Dumbarton Oaks substituing a brass toprail of the same size and design for the bronze one shown on the drawings. She mentions the owner prefers to use bronze if possible, and the contract figure will be adjusted to cover the additional cost of the bronze.
She encloses the contract documents consisting of the drawings and specifications and three copies of the agreement. She asks him to please sign and return to her two copies of the agreement. One copy of the contract is K:RH 1951.12.07B. She is also sending under separate cover an extra set of the drawings and a copy of the construction drawing of the wall as it was built.
Mr. George Oft of the Swedish-American Steel Corporation, 429 Kent Avenue, Brooklyn, N.Y. is reserving the Swedish Charcoal Iron and can make immediate delivery on receipt of the order. Mr. Oft asks that Finelli send him the order and the quantities needed at the earliest date possible.
Havey plans to be at Finelli's office at 2pm on Monday, December 17th to lay out the full size template with you with hopes to accomplish this and return to New York the same day.
Dates
- Creation: December 7, 1951
Creator
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 (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
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Finelli, Philip, 1913-2005 (Recipient, Person)
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Dumbarton Oaks Repository
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