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Box: F

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Contains 13 Results:

Letter from General Morrison?, Pass Christian to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, May 24, 1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:1959.05.24
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.

Exchange of letters between C.I. Denison, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C. and R.H. Carruthers, New York Public Library, Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, New York 18, N.Y., May 18-21, 1954 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Carruthers 1954.05.21
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Copy of typescript letter from Isabel Denison to the Director of the Microfilm Department, New York Public Library asks if the datalogue of the Bibliotheque Nitonale is on microfilm and if so what is the price. A response letter from R.H. Carruthers, Chief, Photographic Service Division of the New York Public Library tells Denison that he does not know of a microfilmed catalogue and offers the best source for the information.

Letter from Roald Dahl, Air Attache, British Embassy, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Mildred Bliss, Box 596, Santa Barbara, California and note by Mildred Bliss on sonnet "High Flight", November 30, 1942 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Dahl 1942.11.30
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Roald Dahl to Mildred Bliss thanks her for sending music to the poem "High Flight". He asks that additional points be clarified with the composer before sending the music on to London. The poem High Flight is with letter.

Letter from William H. Forsyth, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, N.Y. to Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, May 8, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Forsyth 1951.05.08
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.

Note on and line art drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople from A.M. Friend, Jr., Dumbarton Oaks Harvard University, Washington 7, D.C., March 25, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Friend 1951.xx.xx
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Note from Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. with a line art drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

Postcard from Topazia Markevitch, Hotel Rosita de Horvado, Havana, Cuba to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, N.W., Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., U.S.A., 1940-1960 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Markevitch
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Handwritten picture postcard from Donna Topazia Caetani Markevitch to Mildred Bliss sends her apologies for being unable to attend the Nadia Boulanger concert because her husband Igor is giving a concert on the same day.

Exchange of letters between Carla C. Marzoli, La Bibliofila, via Manzoni N. 21, Milano, Italia and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1527 28th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., July 12 - August 19, 1954 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Marzoli 1954.08.19
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Typescript letter between Carla C. Marzoli, Caligrapher and Mildred Bliss asks if she can meet with Bliss again before departing the United States. C. Isabel Denison responds on behalf of Mildred Bliss offering Bliss's regrets that she was unable to connect before Marzoli's departure.

Letter from Joseph McManus 15 Ramona Lane, Montecito, Santa Barbara, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, December 6, 1942 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:McManus 1942.12.06
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.

Exchange of letters between Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and representatives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union on the donation of Parklyn's 1797 aquatint of Mount Vernon, July 5, 1951-January 26, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Mt Vernon 1952.01.26
Scope and Contents: Handwritten and typescript letters and notes between Mildred Bliss, Elsa A. Needham, her secretary, Charles C. Wall, Superintendent of Mt. Vernon and representatives of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union about the Blisses donation of the Parklyn's aquatint of Mt. Vernon. There are handwritten on notes by Mildred Bliss with contact informtion for Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel, Regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; letters from Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel and Elizabeth H....

Notes on a wax resin using Terebenthine from the tree, 1930-1960 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:MBnotes 19xx.xx.xx
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.

Exchange of letter from Monroe Wheeler, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York 19, New York and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C., June 12-30, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Wheeler 1952.07.02
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Handwritten and copies of typescript letters between Monroe Wheeler, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mildred Bliss about making facsimiles available from a copy of a Rouault letter which she donated to the museum. She will explore with Rouault the possibility of publishing one or all three of the items. She will tell Wheeler of her negotiations upon her return from travel in October.

Letter from Lawrence Grant White, McKim, Mead, and White, 101 Park Avenue, New York to Robert Woods Bliss, 2750 Que Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., March 2, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:White 1950.03.02
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Letter from Lawrence Grant White to Robert Woods Bliss tells him the formula and process for painting the letters.

"M" Miscellaneous, 1938-1959

Sub-Group — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.