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Letter from Josephine Poe January to Mildred Bliss?, February 12, 1940 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 69Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:January 1940.02.13
Scope and Contents:

Signed handwritten letter by Josephine Poe January probably sent to Mildred Bliss following time spent at Dumbarton Oaks.

Note on calling card from Bessie J. Kibbey, 2025 Massachusetts Avenue to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, between November 1-23, 1939 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 101Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:Kibbey
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Handwritten note written on Bessie J. Kibbey's personal calling card to Mildred Bliss thanks her for allowing she and Mrs. Bishop to visit the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. Calling card likely left for Mildred Bliss on the day of their visit to the garden.

Letter from Bessie J. Kibbey, 2025 Massachusetts Avenue to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, October 23, 1939 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 80Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:Kibbey 1939.10.23
Scope and Contents:

Signed handwritten letter from Bessie J. Kibbey to Mildred Bliss thanks her for allowing her the pleasure of spending time in the Dumbarton Oaks Garden with her friend Mrs. Bishop and her husband.

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

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Gardens for the Blind
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.

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

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Gardens for the Blind
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.

Letter from Lady Judy Rowan, 17 Cheque Court, London, S.W. 3 to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and enclosing responses from her inquiry on the gardens for the blind, August 20-September 12, 1951 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Gardens for the Blind
File — Box: E, Folder: 14, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E14:Rowan 1951.09.12B
Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter and typescript copy of letter from Lady "Judy" [Catherine Patricia Love?] Rowan to Mildred Bliss telling her she has not forgotten about Mildred's garden for the blind. Lady Rowan wrote on behalf of Mildred Bliss to the Parks and Allotments Department, The Castle, York; Burnham-on-Sea Urban District Council, Somerset; Borough of Hastings, Parks and Gardens Department, Hastings; and the National Institute for the Blind, 224-6-8 Great Portland Street, London, W.1. Included...

Letter from Mrs. Melvin E. Sawin, Shadblow Farm, Wakefield, Rhode Island to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., May 12, 1953 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Gardens for the Blind
File — Box: E, Folder: 14, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E14:Sawin 1953.05.12
Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from Edith Sawin (Mrs. Melvin E. Sawin) to Mildred Bliss sending her enclosed leaflets to help Mildred plan her garden for the blind. Edith says the garden was designed and staged by The New England unit of The Herb Society and was shown at the Boston Flower Show in March where it won a number of awards. "Perhaps you can adapt it to your needs ...". The leaflet includes a list of plants. Ediths sends Mildred contact information for persons at the New England Unit of the...

Notecard from Josephine Poe January to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, April 13, 1937 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Dumbarton Oaks, Concert, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 5, item: 20Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E5:January 1937.04.13
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Handwritten notecard from Josephine Poe January to Mildred Bliss tells her what a real pleasure she gave Josephine with the two afternoon music concerts at Dumbarton Oaks this past week. She describes her experience to Mildred Bliss.

Advertisement for Elizabethan song book, Doubleday & Company with packing slip, 1957-1958 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: "D" Miscellaneous
File — Box: E, Folder: 3, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E3:elizabethan song book
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence sent to Mildred Bliss by persons or by Mildred Bliss to persons whose last name begins with "D".

Letter from Loulie Hooper Thoron, 253 Marborough Street, Boston to Mildred Bliss, approximately 1930-1960 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey / Sub-Group: Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 64Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:Hooper
Scope and Contents: Signed handwritten letter from Loulie Hooper Thoron to Mildred Bliss telling her she wandered the Dumbarton Oaks Garden going from "one beautiful terrace to another drinking in the taste and knowledge of the artist planner and artist owners who had put together such gardens for the delight of birds and men. She reports it was a divine hour of the day and one of Spring's loveliest moments. Loulie wishes that Uncle Henry [Adams] were here to see what Mildred Bliss and Beatrix Farrand have...
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