Box E

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Exchange of typescript letters and telegram between Mary McDermott Beirne and Mildred Bliss and her secretary involving a visit to Dumbarton Oaks. Included is a descriptive list of daffodils offered for sale at Rhodeen. Included is Mary McDermott Beirne's calling card.

Scope and Contents: Typescript note of a telephone message between Miss Crawford of the Washington Star newspaper and Barbara Sessions asking if she could write a column about the Dumbarton Oaks library and bindery. In conversation with Barbara Sessions, Crawford was told to contact Mildred Bliss's private secretary who handled press relations. The private secretary told Miss Crawford that it was not logical to write about the program as it isn't sufficiently advanced and Dumbarton Oaks won't be open to the...

Scope and Contents: Exchange of typescript letters between Ralph W. Curtis of Agricultural Experiment Station at Cornell University and Robert and Mildred Bliss asks if he can bring a group of students to Dumbarton Oaks. A copy of the letter was sent to James Bryce, the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Superintendent in case the Blisses absence. The Blisses secretary offers an approved date. Curtis send a follow-on letter with a need to change the visit date offered by the Blisses, and the date change was approved. Alfred...

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Exchange of letters (handwritten and typescript) between Helen H. Greenlees and Mildred Bliss and her secretary. Greenlees asks if she can visit the Dumbarton Oaks Garden with her 20th Century Club Nature Section. Mildred Bliss approves the request through her secretary.

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Handwritten letter from Edith Hoyt to Mildred Bliss tells her she would like to sketch the Dumbarton Oaks Garden. She would be interested in getting autumn and spring effects on the garden. She was commissioned to paint the Henry Fairbanks garden at Murray Bay and a painting of Dumbarton Oaks would be one in a series of garden picture that her New York dealer would like to exhibit.

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Requests sent to Dumbarton Oaks or Mildred or Robert Woods Bliss.

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Exchange of telegrams from Western Union and Postal telegraph between Sunny Forbes (Mrs. Alex C. Forbes) of Vogue Magazine and Mildred Bliss. Forbes wantes to do an feature on Dumbarton Oaks for Vogue Magazine, but Mildred Bliss says she cannot give her consent to do so.