Letter from Max Farrand, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California to Honorable Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., May 16, 1940 Digital
Scope and Contents
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Max Farrand to Robert Woods Bliss asking advice in a personal matter. A member of the Huntington Library and Art Gallery staff, C.H. Collins Baker, an artist, is frantic over the threat [of war] in England. Baker asks if there is any possible way for their daughter, Phyllis and her physician husband, Eugene Laurent to join them in this country if things worsened in England. Farrand describes Phyllis as an invalid and her husband restored her with medicine or injections. Farrand admits he is ignorant in such matters and wonders if the U.S. State Department or someone else could do something to help. He is appealing to Robert because he is the only person he could think of at the moment who could probably give him the information.
Dates
- Creation: May 16, 1940
Creator
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 (Correspondent, Person)
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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Extent
23 boxes (Approximately 2632 items including correspondence, expense reports, invoices, estimates, deposit records, book lists, newspaper clippings, newsletters, and plant lists.)Creator
- Farrand, Max, 1869-1945 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 (Recipient, Person)
- Baker, C.H. Collins (Charles Henry Collins), 1880-1959 (Person)
- Laurent, Louis Philippe Eugene, 1906-1992 (Person)
- Baker, Phyllis, -1956 (Person)
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (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