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Box E

 Container

Contains 3 Results:

Letters from William H. Willis and Glanville Downey on contributing to the publication of a book in honor of David M. Robinson, University of Mississippi to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, January 31, 1950-March 15, 1950 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 17, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E17:Downey 1950.03.15
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Typescript letter from William E. Willis to Robert and Mildred Bliss asks for a financial contribution to publish a book in honor of Professor David M. Robinson, an American classical archaeologist. Two letters from Glanville Downey to Mildred Bliss discourages the contribution. Copy of typescript letter from Glanville Downey to David M. Robinson on behalf of Robert and Mildred Bliss tells Robsinson that they are unable to make a contribution to the cost of publishing his volume.

Letter from Katherine McNamara, Librarian, Harvard University, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts to Elsa A. Needham, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., April 23, 1951 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 17, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E17:McNamara 1951.04.23
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Katherine McNamara to Elsa A. Needham informs her the McNamara's "Landscape Architecture" bibliography was never followed by a later edition. She is sending a complimentary copy of the bibliography to Mildred Bliss.

Pamphlet with a description of The John Harvard Library to be published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, January 1959 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 17, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E17:The John Harvard Library
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Pamphlet describing the creation of the John Harvard Library by the Harvard University Press with the purpose to publish books in the field of American history and culture using funds donated by Waldron Phoenix Belknap, Jr. upon his death in 1949.