Letter from Edith Hoyt, Arts Club of Washington, 2017 I Street Northwest, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, November 6, 1940 Digital
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter from Edith Hoyt to Mildred Bliss tells her she would like to sketch the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. She would be interested in getting autumn and spring effects on the garden. She was commissioned to paint the Henry Fairbanks garden at Murray Bay and a painting of Dumbarton Oaks would be one in a series of garden picture that her New York dealer would like to exhibit.
Dates
- Creation: November 6, 1940
Creator
- Hoyt, Edith, 1894-1971 (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.)Subject
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Recipient, Person)
Creator
- Hoyt, Edith, 1894-1971 (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