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Box E

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

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
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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".

Exchange of letters between Pauline B. Woodruff, 2133 Wisconsin Avenue, Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and her secretary, July 20-21, 1937 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 6, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E6:Woodruff 1937.07.20
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Signed handwritten letter from Pauline B. Woodruff to Mildred Bliss thanking her for plants for the children's playground at Montrose Park, Washington, D.C. and for the generous gift to the little Garden Club. She also extends thanks from the Superintendent of the Playground Department of Montrose Park.

Letter from unknown correspondent, New York to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, April 1, 1940 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:1940.04.01
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Signed handwritten letter from an unknown person [name illegible] to Mildred Bliss expressing appreciation for meeting her, seeing her collection and garden at Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. The correspondence asks Mildred Bliss to let her know if she is interested in receiving a colored photograph of Barbarini's mosaic. A drawing of a stately building on the water (possibly in Venice) with this letter.

Note from Frances Q. Ervin, 1900 Que Street N.W., Washington 9, D.C. to Mildred Bliss with newspaper clipping of a N.Y. Times Book Review, "Handbook for the Blind", June 15, 1952 Digital

File — Box: E, Folder: 14, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E14:NY Times Book Review 1952.06.15
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Note by Frances Quincy Nichols Ervin to Mildred Bliss and sending to her a book review. Newspaper clipping of a New York Times Book Review published June 15, 1952 in the New York Times. Book reviewed titled, "A Handbook for the Blind by Juliet Bindt. Book review written by Baynard Kendrick.