Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, Santa Barbara, California, Feburary 21, 1946 Digital
Scope and Contents
Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand tells her she has been substituting for Miss Snow as secretary to Robert Woods Bliss. Anne found the complete set of Sargent's Silva of North America in a bookstore and Mildred Bliss agreed with Ethel Burnet Clark's intervention to buy it for Dumbarton Oaks. There have not been many visitors to Dumbarton Oaks in January and February. She reports the "Underworld" is under construction and she will move into her new quarters in the future. Anne is taking Systematic Botany classes which she finds interesting. Miss [Persus Warren] Mason married Stephanus Van Cortlant Morris [Stephen van Courtlandt Morris] of New York in a pretty church wedding with flowers on the altar from Dumbarton Oaks. Her position is being filled by Mrs. [Elizabeth] Bland. Mildred and Robert Bliss are sorting through books, papers, and pictures deciding what to keep. The Government has finally moved out of the house and only a few of the staff remain in the museum, but they should be gone the first of March.
Dates
- Creation: Feburary 21, 1946
Creator
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 (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
- Sweeney, Anne, 1887-1954 (Correspondent, Person)
Subject
- Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959 (Recipient, Person)
- Morris, Stephen van Cortlandt, 1909-1984 (Person)
- Morris, Persis Warren, 1916-2004 (Person)
- Clark, Ethel Burnet, 1878-1964 (Person)
- Bliss, Mildred Barnes, 1879-1969 (Person)
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962 (Person)
- Bland, Elizabeth M., 1912-1997 (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