Box: F

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from C.I. Denison to representatives of the Friends of the Huntington Library requests the illustrated catalog of the Lipton Collection of old silver to be sent to Mildred Bliss. A payment is enclosed. A typescript response letter from Ralph Jenner Gifford of the Friends of the Huntington Library to Mildred Bliss informs her that a complimentary copy of the catalog is being sent; payment is being returned; and a renewal of membership notification is being sent. A...

Scope and Contents: Exchange of letters between and Anne Sweeney on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Leila N. Jones (Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones) about acquiring her volumes of Phytanthoza Iconographia. Leila Jones sent two volumes of the set of books and keys sent to Mildred Bliss for examination. An analysis of the volumes is included along with a letter from Dorothy S. Manks, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society librarian comparing a report of the Jones volumes completed by Caroline Shillaber, Harvard University...

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Handwritten notes by Mildred Bliss of lists of Chrysanthemums and plants and two sketches, a garden plan and a fountain. Notes likely intended for Matthew Kearney.

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Music realted leaflets for the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont; Concise Encyclopaedia of Music; and Saison Musicale de Royaumont.

Scope and Contents: Correspondence between William A. Jackson and Mildred Bliss regarding the purchase of an Emily Dickinson book and decorating of the Emily Dickinson Room at the Harvard University Houghton Library. Mildred Bliss and other committee members provided financial support for this effort. Includes correspondence discussing the purchase of the Virigina Woolf manuscript diaries, the Thomas Whittemore evocation by Mildred Bliss, and furniture selected from the Emily Dickinson house for the Emily...

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Correspondence to Mildred Bliss from Geoffrey A. Jellicoe, President of the International Federation of Landscape Architects offering information on the organization; V.S. Olive, letter and invoice billing for furniture restoration services; and Hubbert R. Quinter, Complete Insurance Service, providing an invoice for insurance coverage to ship books to London.

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Handwritten note from C. Isabel Denison to Ellis Russel asks him to renew the subscription to Landscape Architecture for two years. Typescript information indicates a payment was sent for the subscription renewal, September 22, 1958.

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Correspondence between C.I. (Isabel) Denison, Keeper of the Founder's Room and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Mrs. Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. Clyde H. Myers), a bookbinder and restorer of rare books at the Cornell University Library. The letters discuss books sent to Fleda Straight Myers for binding and restoring. Includes an interoffice communication between C.I. Denison and John Thacher, Dumbarton Oak Director regarding insurance for the garden books.

Scope and Contents: Correspondence to or from Mildred Bliss' secretary and Frederick R. Goff, Chief, Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress. Also includes an analysis of plates missing from the book, "Botanist's Repository" in the Library of Congress collection and Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs information and price list for the Historic American Building Survey collection, the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture collection, and the Architecture of the Deep South...

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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.

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Copy of typescript letter from Elsa A. Needham to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on behalf of Mildred Bliss asks them to send a copy of Gisela Richter's work on Greek Form if one becomes available.

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Excerpt from Garden Gossip, recording the activities of the Mid-South, Volume 30, Issue 3, March 1955 of article titled, "Landscape Design, Restoration of the Gardens and Grounds of Woodlawn Plantation" by Alden Hopkins, landscape architect, Williamsburg, Virginia. Article was likely shared with Mildred Bliss.

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Earle H. Balch to Mildred Bliss tells her the only first-rate source for old books in The Hague is the firm of Martinus Nijhoff which is situated in the Lange Voorhout not far from their hotel. Balch spoke with Mr. Wouter Nijhoff, the head of the firm and told him of Mildred's interest. Nijhoff remembered meeting Mildred some years ago at Dumbarton Oaks. He is also willing to come by Mildred's hotel. Balch tells her it was a pleasure seeing...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Howell J. Heaney to Mildred Bliss tells her he is sorry he was unable to take her call. The people whom Miss Shaffer suggested to catalogue a fine private library were: Miss Elisabeth Woodburn (Mrs. Keith Robertson), Booknoll Farm, Hopewell, New Jersey; Miss Elizabeth Baer, Evergreen House Foundation, 4545 North Charles Street, Baltimore 10, Maryland, Miss Dorothy Miner, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1, Maryland; and Miss Jane Quinby,...

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to Mrs. Harold I. Pratt of the Garden Club of America encloses an informational notice about the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks opening to the public. The notice was sent to T.H.B. McKnight asking if it can be published in the Garden Club of America's forthcoming Bulletin. McKnight suggested that the notice be put in Pratt's file for the Spring issue of the Bulletin for the benefit of those Garden Clubs who might be in Washington during...