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FILE — Box: E, Folder: 7, item: 3 Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E7:MB 1949.08.31

Letter from Mildred Bliss, Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris I to Alberta Carpenter, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., U.S.A., August 31, 1949 Digital

Letter from Mildred Bliss, Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris I to Alberta Carpenter, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., U.S.A., August 31, 1949
Letter from Mildred Bliss, Hotel Ritz, Place Vendome, Paris I to Alberta Carpenter, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., U.S.A., August 31, 1949

Scope and Contents

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Alberta S. Carpenter, secretary at Dumbarton Oaks tells her the Blisses look forward to seeing John Thacher in Paris. Mildred sends enclosed letters to Annie and Mosser. Mr. Ellis Russell is going to let Carpenter know when the security storage will delivere the bamboo tables and chairs. Mildred reports receiving a letter from Ethel Clark about the hot weather.

Dates

  • Creation: August 31, 1949

Creator

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.)

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

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