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 30, 1943 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: 119Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, D:BF 1943.08.30
Scope and Contents:
Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher reports a successful holiday in Bar Harbor for James Bryce. She offers a few ideas that came to her during James Bryce’s stay and asks John Thacher to consider them in advance of their September meeting. She suggests seeding over the Herbaceous Border in the autumn and allowing grass to remain until the labor situation clears up at the end of the War; and seeding the herb garden beds (F [e.g. E] terrace) and...