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Box E

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Letter from Olga R. Brown, 1554 Hemlock Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Bliss, Washington, D.C., March 16,1939 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 9, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E9:Brown 1939.03.16
Scope and Contents:

Handwritten letter from Olga R. Brown (Mrs. Ernest Willis Brown) to Mildred Bliss asks if the Ladies Auxillary of the Metropolitan Police Boy's Club could hold a charity tea at Dumbarton Oaks. They can furnish refreshments or anything Mildred Bliss suggests. The Ladies Auxillary is helping to furnish the summer camp with blankets and sheets. Brown lists "fine ladies" which are members of the group.

Letters, memorandum, and telephone message for Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss about lending photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden to Mary Stuart Anderson Carden, November 14 - December 12, 1939 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 9, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E9:Green 1939.12.12
Scope and Contents: Typescript memorandum from Mildred Bliss's secretary regarding a telephone message from Louise Green who aksed if her friend Mrs. Mary Stuart Anderson Carden could borrow photographs of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden to show a group of students. Her husband is a Professor at Berry College in Georgia. A list of numbers that correlate with Bliss's photographs is included. Two follow-on letters, one handwritten from Carden and one typescript from Green thank Mildred Bliss for lending the...

Telephone messages from Mrs. Horner for Mildred Bliss, 1934-1940 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 9, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E9:Horner undated
Scope and Contents:

Typescript telephone messages from Mildred Bliss's secretary to Mildred Bliss. She tells her Mrs. Horner called asking if Bliss would be interested in listening to her upcoming broadcast on WOL radio (Washington, D.C.) when she will be talking about "The Romance of Gardens". Mildred Bliss was unable to listen. She also does not object for Horner to mention the Dumbarton Oaks Garden poem on the Azaleas in her next broadcast on "Charm in Gardens".

Dumbarton Oaks, Requests, 1939-1941

Sub-Group — Box: E, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

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