Box E

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...

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Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Alberta S. Carpenter, secretary at Dumbarton Oaks tells her the Blisses look forward to seeing John Thacher in Paris. Mildred sends enclosed letters to Annie and Mosser. Mr. Ellis Russell is going to let Carpenter know when the security storage will delivere the bamboo tables and chairs. Mildred reports receiving a letter from Ethel Clark about the hot weather.

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Copy of a typescript letter from Mildred Bliss to Mrs. Blair tells her Mildred looks forward to seeing her at a Dumbarton Oaks luncheon. Mildred Bliss tells Blair that she promised the first description of her estate to be published as an architectural record, so she refuses Blair's request to write an article on the property.

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Handwritten letter from Paul Henry to Mildred Bliss tells her how much he enjoyed his visit to Dumbarton Oaks. He says if she is thinking of sending him a reproduction of El Greco, could she send two different ones.

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Handwritten receipt for panel lettering from David McLeish of McLeod Romberg Stone Co.

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Signed handwritten letter from Mary Ames Frothingham of North Easton, Massachusetts to Mildred Bliss thanking her for a recent visit to the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. She tells Mildred that the garden she created with Beatrix Farrand is a thing of beauty which will bring pleasure to others for some time. Letter received April 20, 1935. Mrs. Frothingham toured the garden with Edith Bettinger who sent a thank you letter to Mrs. Bliss (E4:Bettinger).