Letter from Ruth M. Havey, Twenty-five Fifth Avenue, New York 3, N.Y. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., January 22, 1953 Digital

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Ruth Havey to Mildred Bliss enclosing notes took in Washington November 28th to December 3rd on available materials and methods of paving the Arbor Terrace, the Byzantine Church Garden, and the Mélisande steps. She says that extensive advice for paving came from Mr. J.R. Kennedy of the Earley Studio, Inc. who is anxious to do the work and offered to make up samples of paving in any color or texture wanted. A box of paving material samples was left with Matthew Kearney. A letter on this was enclosed, but is no longer with correspondence. Mr. Kennedy suggests crushed granite, glass aggregate, or ceramic aggregate in the concrete for the Byzantine Church Garden. For the Arbor Terrace she suggests smooth concrete or Crab Orchard Stone, buff or pink (Tennessee Quartzite) for the scrolls; concrete with aggregate exposed using buff colored washed gravel contrasted with dark gray washed gravel for the center paving (in a pattern); polished dark stone for the center sundial. For the Melisande steps she suggests concrete with exposed aggregate, buff colored washed gravel from the Laurel Plant of Contee Sand & Gravel Co. The steps cast individually in the shop and laid in the bank on gravel with the snails and scroll on the existing wall and at the bottom step in smooth concrete.