Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, April 18, 1947 Digital
Scope and Contents
Copy of a typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand asks her to send in her statements for her accounts to Miss Carpenter no later than June 1st, so that the accounts can be closed and new accounts opened for Robert Patterson. Robert Patterson will report to her on Anne Sweeney's upcoming trip to Bar Harbor, Maine. He tells Beatrix to add the amount of $200 to her honorarium account for Sweeney's trip. He suggests all expenditures she had for correspondence, etc. such as Isabelle Stover's time be sent to Robert Patterson. Patterson may wish to take advantage of her secretarial services. If she visits Dumbarton Oaks, she is to bill Dumbarton Oaks for her services. The stone tiger is being returned to Reef Point with a marked down price of $100. He suspects Robert Patterson will deliver to you messages of his visit to Dumbarton Oaks.
Dates
- Creation: April 18, 1947
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
- From the Sub-Group: Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959 (Person)
- From the Sub-Group: Thacher, John, 1904-1982 (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