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Box E

 Container

Contains 8 Results:

Exchange of letters between Ralph W. Curtis, Cornell University, Department of Floriculture, New York State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, N.Y. and the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, 3101 R Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and their secretary, April 10 - 26, 1939 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 9, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E9:Curtis 1939.04.26
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...

Letter from Mrs. Joseph R. Lyddane, Chairman, Garden Committee, Francis Scott Key School, Parent Teacher Association., 5533 Sherrier Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, March 30, 1938 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 6, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E6:Lyddane 1938.03.30
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Handwritten letter from Mrs. Joseph R. Lyddane (Alton Lyddane) to Mildred Bliss thanks her for the Forsythia bushes for the Francis Scott Key school.

Exchange of letters between Eva H. Bowles, Women's Auxiliary, American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, District of Columbia and the Honorable Robert Woods Bliss and his secretary, March 2-15, 1938 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 8, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E8:MBsec 1938.03.15
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Handwritten letter from Eva H. Bowles (Mrs. Oliver Bowles) to Robert Woods Bliss asks to hold a charity event in the gardens at Dumbarton Oaks. It would benefit the the Woman's Auxiliary of the Mining and Metallurgical Engineers educational fund to provide scholarships to students of high standing interested in mining, metallurgy, or geology. Robert Woods Bliss's secretary sends a regret on his behalf tells Bowles they have already promised other charities to which they are interested in.

Text for telegram from Mildred Bliss to Ruth Havey 25 Fifth Avenue, New York City, November 9, 1950 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 20, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E20:MB 1950.11.09
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Handwritten text for a telegram from Mildred Bliss to Ruth Havey tells her Robert W. Patterson arrives at Dumbarton Oaks for two days. John Thacher would like to see Havey's drawings of the walls before meeting.

Letter from Robert Woods Bliss to C. Waller Barrett, Chairman, Grolier Club, 47 East 60th Street, New York 22, N.Y., April 16, 1954 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 15, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E15:Bliss 1954.04.16
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Robert Woods Bliss to C. Waller Barrett tells him he is sending the three books selected for the Grolier Club's Collector's Choice exhibition by railway express hoping they will be delivered on Monday.

Letter from Monsieur Mensling, 30 Gerry's Landing, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts to Mildred Bliss, May 9, 1956 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 11, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E11:Forbes 1956.05.09
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Handwritten letter from Monsieur Mensling (Edward Forbes) to Mildred Bliss expresses disappointment that he saw so little of Mildred last year.

Exchange of letters between C.I. Denison, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington 7, D.C. and Lewis Glaser, Goose Quills for Art and Calligraphy, Box 123, New Haven, Connecticut, February 1-2, 1956 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 13, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E13:Glaser 1956.02.01
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Exchange of letters between C. Isabel Denison and Lewis Glaser about acquiring a copy of George Washington's Rules of Civility for Mildred Bliss and herself. Lewis responds by sending one copy of the book for $2.50.

Letter from Edith Newlands Johnston, 1609 Twenty-Second Street, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, March 5, 1942 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 5, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E5:Johnston 1942.03.05
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Signed handwritten letter from Edith Newlands Johnston to Mildred Bliss thanking her for the concert and welcome by her. She tells Mildred Bliss the house was beautiful.