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Box B: 7

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Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, April 8, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 23Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.04.08
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover discusses the return of the rare book list after Anne Sweeney made a copy for herself and Mildred Bliss. She is returning negatives from Mrs. Bland. Anne Sweeney mentions the Dumbarton Oaks garden tours resuming and having over 1000 visitors on Easter weekend. She explains matters such as the new card catalog index for plants being deferred until Robert Patterson visits Dumbarton Oaks. Sweeney did not send the plant list and...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts, April 8, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 24Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.04.08B
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand informs her the rare book list and negatives from Mrs. Bland are being returned to Isabelle Stover and announces to her that Spring tours for the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens had begun with blooming flowers showing beautiful color. Anne Sweeney relates that John Thacher wanted her to wait to send the revised notes on plants to Beatrix Farrand as she would be traveling. He thought it is better Sweeney discuss these with Robert Patterson...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, April 17, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 26Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.04.17
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand tells her Robert Patterson is going to to share his recent visit to Dumbarton Oaks with Beatrix Farrand. Anne Sweeney can travel to Reef Point to discuss the planting list after July 1, 1947. Anne Sweeney is returning the plant record notes after Mildred Bliss made comments along with a copy of the book list which includes books from Reef Point Garden Library, Harvard Landscape Library, Massachusetts Horticultural Library, and...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, May 8, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 28Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.05.08
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover acknowledges the receipt of the book lists sent to Beatrix Farrand. She explains how she created the lists. Sweeney comments on the weather in Bar Harbor, Maine. A copy of Anne Sweeney's April report to John Thacher is included for Beatrix Farrand.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, June 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 41Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.06.26
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand tells her she is able to leave Washington, D.C. July 27th to travel to Reef Point to talk about books for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Department. She asks Beatrix about travel arrangements for her trip. Sweeney reports a total of 3032 visitors to the Dumbarton Oaks Garden for June 1947. She encloses an example of the printed card for the planting list. .

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 14, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 44Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.07.14
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand tells she was confering with Alberta Carpenter before answering Beatrix's letter. Anne Sweeney agrees to the dates for a visit to Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, and expresses she is eagerly looking forward to seeing and talking with her. She wants to talk over the replacement of materials for the Catalogue House, the future Garden Information Center, and book purchases. When Anne Sweeney arrives in Boston after her visit at Reef...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 18, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 47Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.07.18
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover discusses lodging and train reservations from Bar Harbor, Maine to Boston Massachusetts to New York, N.Y. and room reservations while in those locations and offers a desired schedule for her trip. She is looking forward to her visit and seeing all individuals at Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine. Anne hopes that Beatrix Farrand is feeling better to meet with her. She wants to visit the Massachusetts Horticultural Society library...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine, July 23, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 50Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:AS 1947.07.23
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover discusses lodging and travel arrangements for her trip to Reef Point and mentions she will bring a copy of the book list with her.

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Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., January 14, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.01.14
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Typescript letter from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney discusses the task of listing all the Dumbarton Oaks plants on cards. Beatrix Farrand suggests including information on everything growing at Dumbarton Oaks, even some weeds, with a full description of each plant to include size, place of origin, good specimen growing, other notes, season of bloom, and various books with more information on the plant.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mildred Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington, D.C., February 10, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.10
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss reports on the status of the expense accounts for the Catalogue House prints and for the Royal Horticultural Society membership dues for James Bryce and Maunsell Van Rensselaer. Beatrix Farrand asks for additional funds for the Catalogue House prints account. A statement for the photograph account was sent to her, but it can move to John Thacher if need be.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., February 20, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.20
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature [probably by secretary] from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss on Santa Barbara Botanic Garden letterhead. Beatrix Farrand reports urgent business of possibly purchasing the lot next to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and asks Mildred Bliss for approval to use the Director's House funds. Beatrix Farrand expresses favorable impressions have been made by Reid Moran, the new Assistant Director and by Sellar Bullard, the President of the Board of...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, P.O. Box 1140, Santa Barbara, California to Anne Sweeney, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., February 21, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.21
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature [probably by secretary] discusses the cards sent to her by Anne Sweeney describing plants in the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and offers suggestions on how the cards can be improved. Beatrix Farrand gives the following instruction, the "cards MUST be printed Dumbarton Oaks, as if they are taken out of the files, they must be retrievable, and an index kept." She offers to send the book list for Reef Point, so Anne Sweeney can make a copy of it. The books...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club, Santa Barbara to Miss Sweeney, February 22-24, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 13Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.22
Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter and notes from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney discusses that Dumbarton Oaks notes for the planting record book are being revised, and she wants to send them for Sweeney to copy from time to time. Sweeney is to forward them on to Mildred Bliss then possibly on to John Thacher for review. An addendum to the letter was added two days later following a letter received from Mildred Bliss. Included are some "revised" notes reflecting sections in Beatrix Farrand's planting...

Telegram from Beatrix Farrand, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28 St. Northwest, February 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 16Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.26
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Western Union telegram from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss informs her that the letter and card were received. Telegram with Mildred Bliss's message to purchase the lot is being relayed to Louis Lancaster, Board of Trustees of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden. She reports that Maunsell Van Rensselaer is improved. Beatrix Farrand is distressed over reported illnesses of friends. This telegram was a duplicate of a telephoned telegram.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, P.O. Box 1140 to Mildred Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington, D.C., February 28, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 17Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.02.28
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature [probably from secretary] communicates the difficulty decision to discontinue advising, counseling, and visiting Dumbarton Oaks and the Gardens due to age and lack of strength. She asks Mildred if she will communicate her decision to John Thacher. Beatrix offers design ideas on the Herbaceous Border, North Vista, and Orangery after receiving her letters and Robert Patterson's full report from his last visit to Dumbarton Oaks. The letters...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Valley Club of Montecito, P.O. Box 1140, Santa Barbara, California to Mildred Bliss, March 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 20Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.03.26
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Handwritten letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss asks if she had received an earlier letter discussing Beatrix Farrand's need to retire from her position with Dumbarton Oaks and the gardens and informing her that notes on the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens had been sent to Anne Sweeney. Anne Fithian is looking better than she has in years. Mrs. Gould's health is not good. The new assistant at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is a great success.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., April 7, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 21Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.04.07
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature [probably by secretary] from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney follows up on the revised notes sent to her for Dumbarton Oaks, and asks to pass them on to Mildred Bliss.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Santa Barbara, California to Mildred Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington, D.C., April 7, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 22Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.04.07B
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter iwth handwritten signature [probably by secretary] answers her letters. Beatrix Farrand explains her lack of strength will prevent a visit to Dumbarton Oaks this spring and mentions a letter was sent to John Thacher about resigning as Consulting Landscape Gardener at Dumbarton Oaks. "You see so clearly that this has not been easy to decide on nor to discuss but it seems a wise move and if it be wise, you and Robert and good John Thacher will approve." Farrand understands...

Text for telegram from Beatrix Farrand to Mrs. R.W. Bliss, April 15, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 25Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.04.15
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Text for a Western Union telegram from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss thanks her for the telegram and sends sentiments that Beatrix Farrand's heart is with her at Dumbarton Oaks even if Beatrix Farrand is at the Arnold Arboretum.

Telegram from Beatrix Farrand, Bar Harbor to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28 St., May 15, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 30Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.05.15
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Western Union telegram reports Reef Point legislation has passed and was signed, so future is safe. Beatrix Farrand mentions of an honor that she doesn't deserve and none received since her Arnold Arboretum appointment. She sends her love to Mildred Bliss and Dumbarton Oaks.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mildred Bliss, May 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 31Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.05.26
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand (Trix) to Mildred Bliss thanks her for the postcard and news of Elizabeth Lindsay's health. Farrand asks of Mildred's summer plans and whether a meeting is possible if she is in New York or Boston. Beatrix Farrand mentions that she has been craving the [Garden Club of America] exhibition catalog. She wonders if it would be possible to meet with Mildred while she is New York or Boston.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington, D.C., May 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 32Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.05.26B
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter sharing with Mildred Bliss her sentiments of Dumbarton Oaks and the development of a foundation library of garden books and resources for students and gardeners. "Oakdom is a part of me also and what happens to it is a vital part of the days ahead as well as of happy creative past years." Beatrix Farrand acknowledges that she will cease to be the landscape gardener for Dumbarton Oaks soon. She offers her thoughts to Mildred about the garden and its importance in serving the...

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mildred Bliss, May 26, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 33Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.05.26C
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss informs her of Santa Barbara Botanic Garden matters such as buying a house for the director; working on the parking area, entrance road, and approach steps; and the Board of Trustees realizing their past mistake.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., June 4, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 34Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.06.04
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Typescript letter asks about Anne Sweeney's summer plans and when she might visit Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine. The expense of the her travel will be covered in the fund reserved for Robert Patterson and Beatrix Farrand. She would like to know what rare books Mildred Bliss would like to have and the future of the garden establishment.

Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to Mildred Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1947 Digital

File — Box: B: 7, Folder: 35Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, B:BF 1947.06.09
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss tells her it appears likely they will not be able to meet before Mildred's summer begins. She conveys her wishes to Mildred and Robert Bliss wherever they may be, and comments that the azaleas are beautiful at Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine.