Box B: 7

Typescript letter with handwritten signature and postscript from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney tells her those books ordered for the library. She sends copies of the orders sent to booksellers, Charles W. Traylen and H.W. Edwards.

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney tells her that Beatrix Farrand is sending a letter to John Thacher requesting that Sweeney visit Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine the week of July 12 as Caroline Shillaber, the librarian for Harvard Landscape Library, will be there cataloging rare books. It will be a good opportunity for Sweeney to see Caroline work and become familiar with rare books. She asks if this arrangements works for her.

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney asks her if the title, "The lilac" by Susan Delano McKelvey is already in the library collection. Beatrix Farrand knows of a second hand copy which is available.

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney tells her a book, "The English Landscape Garden" by H.F. Clark is being sent to her as it arrived at Reef Point Gardens, Bar Harbor, Maine by mistake. Beatrix Farrand wants Sweeney to bring with her to all lists, desiderata, etc. connected with the book department when she visits Reef Point in July. Another book order will be sent to Anne Sweeney soon.

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney tells her she is sending the book, "A monograph of azaleas" by Ernest Henry Wilson and Alfred Rehder which was ordered from Henry George Fiedler, bookseller, in error for Reef Point but intended for Dumbarton Oaks.

Letter includes a letter received from Mrs. Walter Douglas and asks for it to be returned after Beatrix Farrand is done reading it. Mildred Bliss encloses a check for the purchase of books for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library and provides an update on the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden progress.

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand thanks her for her concern for Bliss's illness from the cholera and typhus vaccinations. "... as long as one has these foreign antibodies roaming around one's system, one cannot be normal, so I am writing off the entire summer as the price necessary to visit Byzantium. Bliss will go over the Garden Center project with John Thacher prior to her travels and is glad that Beatrix Farrand's back is better.

Copy of typescript letter with handwritten additions from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand asks what Bliss's annual contribution should be to the Garden Club of America; comments on the director's house and the ongoing construction project for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden; and thanks Beatrix Farrand for her donation to the construction project. She is sending funds to Ellis Russell for garden books marked xxx and xx on a book list.

Text for Western Union telegram from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand tells her she tried to contact Farrand by phone to sent Easter wishes; hopes Farrand's return journey to Reef Point is comfortable; and describes plant blooming in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens, Washington, D.C.

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Isabelle Stover sends a plan of a church garden to Beatrix Farrand who might possibly make a tracing of it.

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss's secretary on behalf of Mildred Bliss to Isabelle Stover thanks her two notes that just arrived; offers concern for Beatrix Farrand's health; and reports that Mildred Bliss is having a reaction following to the cholera vaccination required for her European trip.

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss's secretary on behalf of Mildred Bliss asks Ellis Russell to send funds for library purchases for the Garden Library and for a yearly donation to the Arnold Arboretum to Beatrix Farrand.

Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss's secretary on behalf of Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand acknowledges receipt of Beatrix Farrand's letter and relays that instructions have been given to Ellis Russell [regarding funding].

Book order form from B.H. Blackwell, Ltd. to Beatrix Farrand notifies her of an available good second copy of "In a Gloucestershire garden", 2nd edition by Henry Nicholson Ellacombe is being held in reserve for her. .

Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Robert Patterson to Anne Sweeney encloses copies of the Reef Point plant card and the list of information that should go on all cards. He states it was nice to see Anne Sweeney during her recent trip to Bar Harbor, Maine.

A copy of a typescript note for Beatrix Farrand on the response of the Hughes Bolckow Shipbuilding Company on teak furniture. A separate handwritten note has "Copy sent to Mrs. L. Corrine [?] 2712 32nd St. N.W.

Typescript note and copy of typescript book lists from Isabelle Stover to Mildred Bliss tells her the enclosed books lists who the XXX books at Reef Point which Beatrix Farrand thinks Dumbarton Oaks should have.

Copy of book order from Beatrix Farrand's secretary (likely Isabelle Stover) to Eric Lundberg, Walpole, N.H., bookseller. Order includes six book titles and asks if two additional titles could be sent to Beatrix Farrand for review.

Copy of typescript report on the visitors to Dumbarton Oaks Garden from April 5 to June 29, 1947. The total number of visitors for the three months was 17,198 with the total sales of cards and books, $126.72. Report likely sent to Beatrix Farrand.