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Contains 15 Results:

Letter from Homer D. Crotty, Friends of the Huntington Library, San Marino 15, California to fellow member, December 29, 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington 1949.12.29
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Typescript letter from Homer D. Crotty, Secretary of the Friends of the Huntington Library to fellow member (most likely Mildred Bliss) offering a report to the membership and soliciting membership renewal for the year 1950.

Description of the James Foundation of New York, Inc. 39 East 69th Street, New York 21, N.Y., between 1941-1965 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3:James Foundation of New York
Scope and Contents: Includes correspondence from a people and a corporation with a name that starts with the letter J. One correspondence is from Anne Sweeney responding on behalf of Dumbarton Oaks and Mildred Bliss to Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones (also known as Leila N. Jones), about garden book volumes and prints. Correspondence to a company to order picture postcards with views of the Dumbarton Oaks garden included. One unsent Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection picture postcard of the Herbaeous Border...

Postcard from Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss to Matthew Kearney, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1957.08.12
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Pamphlet for The Concise Encyclopaedia of Music and Musicians, 1950-1960 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q / Sub-Group: Music
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 9, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F9:Concise Encycl of Music
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Music realted leaflets for the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont; Concise Encyclopaedia of Music; and Saison Musicale de Royaumont.

Letter from William A. Jackson, Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Library to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., May 8, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1950.05.08
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 V.S. Olive, 3007 Albemarle Street, N.W. to C.I. Denison, October 12, 1956 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 15, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F15:Olive 1956.10.12
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Handwritten letter from V.S. Olive to Isabel Denison includes a bill to Mildred Bliss for work on 18 pieces of furniture.

Receipt of Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (volume 1) and letter from C.I. Denison to George H.M. Lawrence, L.H. Bailey Hortorium, Cornell University, Ithaca, January 8, 1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 4, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F4:Denison 1959.01.08
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Copy of typescript letter from Isabel Denison to George H.M. Lawrence thanks him on behalf of Mildred Bliss for sending volume one of the Catalogue of Botanical Books in the Collection of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt, the bibliography of Mrs. Hunt's botanical books. A card sent with the bibliography asks for acknowledgment when book is received.

Letter from Marguerite Northrup, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, N.Y. to Elsa A. Needham, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 7, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F7:Northrup 1953.07.17
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Letter from Marguerite Northrup to Elsa Needham on behalf of Mildred Bliss tells her she is forwarding a copy of a letter sent to Mildred Bliss.

Letter from C. I. Denison to Mrs. C.H. Myers, 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York, April 17, 1967 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Denison 1957.04.17
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Copy of letter from Isabel Denison to Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. C.H. Myers) tells her Mildred Bliss is sending her 3 volumes to diagnose the problems with estimates for conservation.

Letter from Frederick R. Goff, Rare Books Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C., June 4, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 5, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F5:Goff 1952.06.04
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...

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.

Report and recommendations from W. Warren Edwards, 1537 Northwest 37th Street, Oklahoma City 18, Oklahoma, Garden Scholarship recipient to Alden Hopkins, Secretary, ASLA Committee on Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia, August 20, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1957.08.20
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from W. Warren Edwards to Alden Hopkins, Secretary of the ASLA Committee on Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship expresses his appreciation to the committee for selecting him as a Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship recipient. He hopes "in the future it will be possible to offer an additional two or three scholarships during June and July. The program at Dumbarton Oaks could be under the direction of a practising landscape architect, perhaps the senior...

Letter from Elsa A. Needham to Raymond Stites, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 9, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Needham 1952.07.09
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Copy of typescript letter from Elsa A. Needham, Keeper of the Founder's Room, Dumbarton Oaks on behalf of Mildred Bliss to Raymond Stites, National Gallery of Art, Washington informs him she is returning the book of Degas plates loaned to Mildred Bliss under separate cover. Mildred Bliss wanted the plates to examine the reproducing work of Paul L. Baruch, Inc. Needham thanks him for lending the plates to Mildred Bliss.

Letter from Enid Eder Perkins, 4000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington 16, D.C. to Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss , 1537 28th Street N.W., Washington, D.C., November 2, 1956 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Perkins 1956.11.02
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Handwritten letter in caligraphy from Enid Eder Perkins to Robert and Mildred Bliss informs them that she has opened a studio in Washington, D.C. where she will be happy to continue to fill their requirements for lettering and illuminating of resolutions, scrolls, citations, etc. She will plan to be in New York about once a week or can go their for the Blisses convenience. Perkins can be reached by telephone in Washington.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. T.H.B. McKnight, 1615 21st Street N.W., Washington, D.C., November 28, 1941 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1941.11.28B
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to Mrs. T.H.B. McKnight. Based on a telephone conversation between the two, Anne Sweeney encloses Harvard University's plan for the announcement of the opening of the Dumbarton Oaks garden to the public. Sweeney says she will also write to Mrs. Pratt and send her the information to bring it to the attention of the Garden Clubs of America. She mentions in the announcement it does not state that the gates would be closed after the tour...