Letter from Ruth M. Havey, Twenty-five Fifth Avenue, New York to John Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks Georgetown, D.C., February 17, 1941 Digital
Scope and Contents
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Ruth Havey to John Thacher tells him she is sorry she missed him while in Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. in January. She reports the status for work: drawings for the Whitehaven Street entrance to Dumbarton Oaks Park, stone bench in loggia, full size detail ofr the support for the lantern in the Service Court. She includes extracts from a letter she received from Mildred Bliss about the inscriptions for the Forsythia gate pediments, the benches for the cortile, modifications of the finials for the new wing, the coat of arms and Harvard seals, and the chronological tablets for the R Street gate posts. Mildred Bliss asks Havey to put aside the signs for the falls in the Dumbarton Oaks Park, the sign for the Lovers' Lane gate (Dumbarton Oaks Park), inscription for Forsythia paving, and stone bences for the Ellipse.
Dates
- Creation: February 17, 1941
Creator
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 (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
- Havey, Ruth M., 1899-1980 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Thacher, John, 1904-1982 (Recipient, 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