Exchange of letters between William H. Bond, Curator, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, March 5 - August 10, 1951 Digital
Scope and Contents
Exchange of typescript letters between William H. Bond and Mildred Bliss suggests she contact Katherine McNamara, librarian of the Harvard Landscape Architecture Library as she is the best authority in the field. She published "Landscape Architecture : a classified bibliography" Cambridge, in 1934. He also recommends other publications, "Some references in the International Style of Landscape Design" 1938; "The Codman collection of books in landscape gardening" Boston Public Library, 1899; and "English Pleasure Gardens" by Rose Standish Nichols, New York and London, 1902. Pencil annotations in margin of letter from Bond to Bliss noted. A copy of Mildred Bliss's response thanks him for his information. "The only big bag in the way of MSS. has come our way to the Founders' Room ... an interesting lot of Erik Satie."
Dates
- Creation: March 5 - August 10, 1951
Creator
- Bond, W. H. (William Henry), 1915-2005 (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 (Person)
- McNamara, Katherine, 1898- (Person)
Creator
- Bond, W. H. (William Henry), 1915-2005 (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