Letter from Rosamund Corcoran, 230 East 73rd Street, New York, N.Y. to Mildred Bliss, May 18, 1941 Digital
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter from Rosamund Corcoran (Mrs. George Eustis Corcoran) to Mildred Bliss tells her Rosamund and her sister had just returned from Washington, D.C. and said "Dumbarton Oaks looked perfectly lovely and wer were both absolutely overcome by the rare and subtle beauty of your marvellous collections. Are you wizards, did you wave magic wands? How did you find such exquisite treatrues?" She tells Mildred the pieces in the collection are beautifully shown to their best advantage. She reports that they bought a copy of the Fogg bulletin as a lovely souvenir of a memorable visit. They also saw the National Gallery and enjoyed every minute of it. Rosamund mentions Marie is going to California this summer, so Mildred will probably see her. She hopes that Robert Bliss is feeling better.
Dates
- Creation: May 18, 1941
Creator
- Corcoran, Rosamond Eustis, 1882-1966 (Correspondent, Person)
Language of Materials
Materials chiefly in English with a few items in Greek, Latin, French, Italian, or Spanish.
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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.)Subject
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Recipient, Person)
Creator
- Corcoran, Rosamond Eustis, 1882-1966 (Correspondent, 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