Letter from Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., March 31, 1959 Digital
Scope and Contents
Typescript letter with handwritten signature by Alden Hopkins to Mildred Bliss tells her it was a pleasure meeting with her during his last visit to Dumbarton Oaks and going over the landscape of the Ellipse and it's planting and design problems. He is planning on being at Dumbarton Oaks on April 7. He has an appointment with Helen Van Pelt Wilson who is the author of numerous garden books and who wants to gather material for an article in Flower Grower Magazine on Dumbarton Oaks. He feels confident that she will produce a good article in a popular style. Flower Grower Magazine is the co-sponsor with Colonial Williamsburg of the Annual Garden Symposium. He asks if it is convenient for Mildred Bliss, Wilson would appreciate meeting her. He feels Mildred Bliss would give Wilson the correct background of the garden from the one most familiar with the history and design. He also tells her he enjoyed so much the lunch and tea with her on the fourteenth. Copy of letter also sent to John Thacher.
Dates
- Creation: March 31, 1959
Creator
- Hopkins, Alden, 1905-1960 (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
- Hopkins, Alden, 1905-1960 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Recipient, Person)
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 (Recipient, Person)
- Wilson, Helen Van Pelt, 1901-2003 (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