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Letter from William A. Jackson, Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Library to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington 7, D.C., October 21, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 17Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1957.10.21
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...

Letter from Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss to D.J. Summers, 71 Rugby Road, Dagenham, Essex, England, December 18, 1963

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 17Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1963.12.18
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Letters from Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to Mildred Bliss and C. I. Denison, December 5, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 17Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1957.12.05
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Mildred Bliss discusses leather and papers for restoration work on the books. A letter to Isabel Denison is included in the letter to Mildred Bliss suggesting Italian papers from Mrs. Annaria Boyd, Colchester Hall, Scarsdale, N.Y. A sample of leather was included in the letter.