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FILE — Box: B: 6, Folder: 101 Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1946.11.23

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, November 1946 report, November 23, 1946 Digital

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, November 1946 report, November 23, 1946
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. and Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, November 1946 report, November 23, 1946

Scope and Contents

Typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss on Santa Barbara Botanic Garden letterhead sends a version of a report dated November 22, 1946 about the future garden plan for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. Beatrix asks Mildred to review it for mistakes, omissions, and errors. Annotations at head of report and in margins probably made by Mildred Bliss. Letter may have been dictated to Katharine Miller, her secretary by Beatrix Farrand.

Dates

  • Creation: November 23, 1946

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

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

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