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Box E

 Container

Contains 6 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
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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.

Letter from Richard H. Bassett, 47 Centre Street, Milton 86, Massachusetts to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., December 13, 1950 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 7, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E7:Bassett 1950.12.13
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Richard H. Bassett to Mildred Bliss thanks her for a contribution to the Contingency Fund to benefit Barbara until she can resume her financial responsibilities.

Letter from Mildred Bliss, Hotel Miramar, Santa Barbara, California to Ruth M. Havey, 25 Fifth Avenue, New York 3, N.Y., August 18, 1950 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 20, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E20:MB 1950.08.18
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter dictated by Mildred Bliss to Ruth Havey thanks her for the ledger stone drawings which she and Robert Woods Bliss like and so she hopes Mrs. Coolidge will as well. She asks Havey to show Mrs. Coolidge samples of the stones. Mildred Bliss tells her she is arriving in Washington, but she asks Havey to give her time to have breakfast and a bath "before we plunge into either the Hamilton burial or the North Vista!" before contacting her. Mildred feels arched limestone curved...

Letter from unknown correspondent, Hotel Wellington, Seventh Avenue, New York to Chere Madame (Mildred Bliss), February 10, 1938 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 5, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E5:1938.02.10
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Handwritten letter in French by an unknown correspondent to Mildred Bliss.

Letter from unknown correspondent, 15 East 69th Street to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, May 26, 1935 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:1935.05.26
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Signed handwritten letter to Mildred Bliss thanking her for the hospitality, kindness, house, and garden tour. Unable to decipher the signature of the writer. The correspondent wants to send Mildred Lawrence of Arabia's translaton of "Forest Giant" for its philsophy and book on trees and hopes Mildred Bliss admires Lawrence (Shaw) as much as he/she does.

Exchange of letters between Isabel Denison, 1703 32nd Street, Washington, 7, D.C. and Bernice Brown Cronkhite, Radcliffe College, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts, November 5-December 8, 1953 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 14, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E14:Cronkhite 1953.12.08
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Exchange of letters between C. Isabel Denison to Dean Bernice Brown Cronkhite, Radcliffe College about a plan for the garden for the blind for Dumbarton Oaks sent by Denison on behalf of Mildred Bliss, and a pamphlet showing the proposed Quadrangle sent by Cronkhite to Mildred Bliss.