Box D: 2
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Beatrix Farrand, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine to John S. Thacher, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, Washington, D.C., August 14, 1942 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 / John Thacher
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Sub-Group:
Correspondence
File — Box: D: 2, Folder: 70Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1942.08.14
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher tells him she could have foreseen the complications of providing flower bulbs to the National Gallery [of Art]. James Bryce has told her what flowers Robert and Mildred Bliss will need. Once Farrand gets the prices a decision on which ones can be made. She discusses the flooding of the Dumbarton Oaks cellars and damage to cork and other floors due to heavy rain; replacing injured Francis Baker with a regular...