Letter from Ethel Burnet Clark, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts to Miss Sweeney, August 20, between 1948-1951 Digital
Scope and Contents
Handwritten letter from Ethel Burnet Clark to Anne Sweeney asking for a list of color-plate flower, etc. books in the Dumbarton Oaks library for George Cottrell, editor of the Harvard Library Bulletin. He wants to publish a list books in all the Harvard libraries.
Dates
- Creation: August 20, between 1948-1951
Creator
- Clark, Ethel Burnet, 1878-1964 (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
- Clark, Ethel Burnet, 1878-1964 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 (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