Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Robert Philbrook, Philbrook Farm, Shelburne, New Hampshire, January 27, 1950 Digital
Scope and Contents
Copy of a letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Robert Philbrook informs her of a telephone inquiry from Mrs. Keltonasking to send some data in regards to Dumbarton Oaks which might be used as a basis for a paper to be read before her local garden club. Sweeney reports she told Mrs. Kelton there were no descriptive booklets on the gardens but she would send a booklet about the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and the work that is going on at Dumbarton Oaks along with a few pictures of the gardens. She says there was an article published on Dumbarton Oaks in October 1944 following the closing of the United Nations meetings held at there during the summer. Sweeney only has one copy of the article written by Beatrix Farrand who designed the grounds which she must keep for her files. She suggests Mrs. Philbrook might be able to get a reprint from Landscape Quarterly Magazine published in Chicago. Sweeney encloses a typescript copy of the historical tablet as well as a newspaper clipping which appeared in the Washington papers at the time of the gift to Harvard University in 1940. Anne Sweeney describes the garden landscape of terraces descending into a grove of Japanese cherry trees, and on the same level a garden catalogue house displaying colored prints of flowers, birds, and shrubs found growing on the place. She offers details on the house, when it was built, and when changes were made as well as when the garden is open to the public.
Dates
- Creation: January 27, 1950
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: Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 (Person)
- From the Sub-Group: Patterson, Robert W., 1905-1988 (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