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Box B: 1

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Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mrs. Clark, c/o Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., August 31, 1936 Digital

File — Box: B: 1, Folder: 75Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1936.08.31
Scope and Contents: Handsigned typescript letter on Beatrix Farrand letterhead from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. Ethel Burnet Clark, a bibliographer who worked for Mildred Bliss at Dumbarton Oaks. Beatrix Farrand offers suggestions on searching for pictures of flowers in cheap books such as the Wild Flowers of America, so the pictures can be cut up to fit into frames. She also mentions the National Georgraphic Society, the Forestry Department, Arnold Arboretum, the Morton Arboretum, and the catalogs from Sutton and...