Box B: 7
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Mildred Bliss, El Mirasol Hotel, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Max Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 7, 1947 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Beatrix Farrand / Mildred Bliss
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Sub-Group:
Correspondence
File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 42Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:MB 1947.07.07
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand tells her not to get entangled with Mississippi floods. She suggests creating a list of book that are "indispensable," and "desirable but second-firsts." Bliss mentions buying books is a personal decision between the two of them and does not involve Dumbarton Oaks which has no acquisition fund for books. Mildred Bliss leaves it up to Beatrix Farrand to decide whether the books, "Arboretum et fruticetum...