Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

Scope and Contents Copy of typescript letter with handwritten note and signature by B.F. (Beatrix Farrand). Beatrix Farrand lays out her vision for the Dumbarton Oaks property including keeping some existing landscaping and adding new trees, shrubs, and flowers. She includes lists of Plants for R. Street plantation border and Plants for Orangery. Report and lists may have been included with letter from Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mildred Bliss, 1785 Massachusetts Avenue, Washington, D.C., July 7,...

Scope and Contents Typescript letter on Beatrix Farrand embossed letterhead with handwritten note and signature. The report for "The Oaks" and plant lists for the R Street plantation border and Orangery dated June 24-25, 1922 from Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor, Maine, to Mildred Bliss was intended to be enclosed with this letter. Beatrix Farrand continues to lay out her vision for the Dumbarton Oaks property and garden. She suggests plants, trees, and colors to be used, and reports receiving the property survey...

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Typescript lists on Beatrix Farrand embossed letterhead of suggested perennial seeds and plants for the flower garden.

Scope and Contents Unsigned copy of typescript letter attributed to Mildred Bliss. Beatrix Farrand also known as Mrs. Max Farrand. Mildred Bliss reports she and Robert Bliss "purr with contentment" after receiving her report and enclosure. The report laid out the vision for the Dumbarton Oaks property and garden. She asks Beatrix Farrand to "ask your 'young architect' to send schemes for the retaining walls, stairs, landings, etc. It would save much time could I have the grading finished and the walls build,...

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Typescript handsigned letter on Beatrix Farrand embossed letterhead. Beatrix Farrand discusses in detail the layout of the Dumbarton Oaks garden terraces and encloses the blueprints which are no longer with the letter.

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Typescript letter handsigned with initials, B.F. on Beatrix Farrand embossed letterhead. The enclosed photographs are cedar trees being offered by Mr. Charles Sprague Sargent from the Arnold Arboretum. The letter lists the cost for three of them for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, North Vista garden area.

Scope and Contents Unsigned copy of typescript letter with handwritten note attributed to Mildred Bliss responding to Trix (Beatrix Farrand) about proposals for the Dumbarton Oaks garden and property. Specifically, it mentions the loggia, purchase of cedar trees from Mr. Sargent at Arnold Arboretum, Gardener's Cottage, greenhouse, 32nd Street wall, piers and gates, railing between Lovers' Lane and 31st Street entrance. Mildred Bliss explains changing architectural firms will be easier for Beatrix Farrand to...

Scope and Contents Handwritten and handsigned letters on embossed letterhead from Beatrix Farrand expressing her admiration for Mildred Bliss and the emptiness she will feel while at The Oaks [Dumbarton Oaks] while Mildred and Robert Bliss are away at an interesting post in Europe. She and [William] Gray will do some organizing, explore the possibilities of masons and carpenters, and eject [Wm. P.] Lipscomb and Co. from the outdoors [the garden]. She states she is the helping hands to carry out the work on The...

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Unsigned, copy of typescript letter attributed to Mildred Bliss. Mildred Bliss informs Trix (Beatrix Farrand) that her proposed scheme for the box-garden on the knoll is just right.

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Unsigned typescript copy of letter with a handwritten note (attributed to Mildred Bliss) to Trix (Beatrix Farrand) expressing her delight with ideas that Beatrix Farrand has for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. Mildred Bliss requests a rough prospective sketch of the little moat in the Ellipse and suggests "Edith coping" might be the perfect thing for the pool on Lovers' Lane.

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Signed, handwritten letter by Mary Cadwalader Jones, mother of Beatrix Farrand.

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Signed, typescript letter on Beatrix Farrand stamped letterhead. Katherine C. Egan, secretary, is writing on behalf of Beatrix Farrand to Mademoiselle [Therese] Malaye, secretary to Mildred Bliss, inquiring about the Italian envelopes sent to Mildred Bliss.

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Unsigned copy of typescript letter. Mademoiselle [Therese] Malaye, secretary to Mildred Bliss in Paris, acknowledges receipt of Italian envelopes sent to Mildred Bliss by Beatrix Farrand. Katherine C. Egan is secretary to Beatrix Farrand.

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Typescript and handsigned letter on Beatrix Farrand letterhead to Madamoiselle [Therese] Malaye, secretary for Mildred Bliss. Includes a handwritten note by Mildred Bliss about fumigation with Paradichlorobenzene and Carbon Tetrachloride.

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Signed handwritten letter by Mary Cadwalader Jones, mother of Beatrix Farrand.

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Typescript copy of signed letter by George Lincoln Hendrickson to Ellis Russell, secretary to Robert Woods Bliss. Handwritten note in pencil on tissue paper about Latin and Greek translations in Mildred Bliss' hand.

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Typescript letter on Yale University, Department of Classics letterhead with handwritten corrections and signature by George Lincoln Hendrickson offering a Latin inscription dedicated to Beatrix Farrand. Ellis Russell is secretary to Robert Woods Bliss, but letter was probably intended for Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss.

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Typescript letter on professional letterhead with handwritten signature by Ellis Russell, secretary to Robert Woods Bliss, to Mildred Bliss. Enclosures previously included are no longer with letter.

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Copy of typescript signed letter by George Lincoln Hendrickson to Ellis Russell, secretary to Robert Woods Bliss.

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Typescript and handsigned letter on professional letterhead from Ellis Russell, secretary to Robert Woods Bliss, to Mildred Bliss. Includes enclosures of dedication inscription for Beatrix Farrand in English, Spanish, and Latin. Mildred Bliss has made handwritten annotations to one Latin inscription (marked IV).

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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Ellis Russell, secretary to Robert Woods Bliss, to Mildred Bliss. Enclosure mentioned is no longer with letter. Letter sent Air Mail.

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Copy of typescript letter, unsigned, but attributed to Mildred Bliss to Professor George Lincoln Hendrickson, Yale University, Department of Classics, about a Latin dedication and inscription for Beatrix Farrand for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden [Green Garden].

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Handwritten letter and signature on personal letterhead.

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Handwritten signed letter from Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at William Smith College and Hobart College in Geneva, New York to Mildred Bliss. He is responding to a request to translate an inscription into Greek. The inscription is to be a dedication to Beatrix Farrand in the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Green Garden.

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Copy of typescript letter, unsigned, but attributed to Mildred Bliss to Joseph Hetherington McDaniels, Professor of Greek Language and Literature at William Smith College and Hobart College in Geneva, New York. Enclosure of typewritten inscription in English sent with original letter not with copy of letter.