Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, September 9, 1947 Digital
Scope and Contents
Copy of typescript letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand thanks her for her mother's [Mary Cadwalader Jones] photographs of Constantinople and Greece. He is looking forward to Robert Patterson's upcoming visit to Dumbarton Oaks and Thacher says it is a good time, so he can devote all of his attention to his visit. He reports that James Bryce might be more cooperative since they have been having difficulty maintaining garden staff due to the great increase in wages and temptations of other work. He tells her Robert and Mildred Bliss have arrived from California and will be sailing on the Queen Mary from New York on Thursday, September 11. They expect to be gone for three months. Both seem well except Mildred looks rather pale and tired from the Cholera inoculations. He asks for her itinerary and expresses hope to see her before she goes west. He may turn up in Bar Harbor the first week in October. He also suggests they could meet at The Ritz on her way through Boston. He informs her that the paper envelope that she sent him was his constant companion on his European voyage, and hasn't left him for a moment.
Dates
- Creation: September 9, 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