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Box: F

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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 31, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington 1951.12.31
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Typescript letter from Homer D. Crotty, Secretary, 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 1952.

Letter from Leila N. Jones, 77 Miller Road, Morristown, New Jersey to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, June 30, 1948 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3:Jones 1948.06.30
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Handwritten letter from Leila N. Jones to Mildred Bliss thanks her for returning the flower books so beautifully packed. The books probably refer to title: Phytanthoza Iconographia sent to Mildred Bliss for examination.

Letter from Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Claridges, Brook Street, W1 to Matthew Kearney, July 27, 1957? Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 19xx.07.27
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Leaflet for the Abbaye de Royaumont, Saison musicale de Royaumont, 1958 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: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F9:Saison Musicale de Royaumont 1958
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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., January 5, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.01.05
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...

Invoice from Hubbert R. Quinter to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Founder's Room, Dumbarton Oaks, 1703 32d Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., April 1955 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 15, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F15:Quinter 1955.05.16
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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.

Letter from Marguerite Northrup, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, N.Y. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., July 17, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 7, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F7:Northrup 1953.07.17B
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Typescript letter and copy from Marguerite Northrup, Metropolitan Museum of Art to Mildred Bliss offers information on the request by Elsa Needham about a book by Gisela Richter. Information from their Classical Department recommends two articles from journals.

Letter from C. I. Denison to Fleda Myers, May 16, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Denison 1957.05.16
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Copy of letter from Isabel Denison to Fleda Straight Myers tells her Mildred Bliss approves of the paper and the leather samples she sent. The 3 volumes sent to her are insured and valued at $1500.

Exchange of letters involving Liesbeth Lecercq, 7 Korte Vyverberg, The Hague, The Netherlands, Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and C. Isabel Denison about collectors marks on Dumbarton Oaks prints, July 22-October 15, 1954 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 4, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F4:Leclercq 1954.10.15
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Includes correspondence sent to or received by Mildred Bliss or her office staff with persons whose name begins with "L" or journal name begins with "L".

Letter from Frederick R. Goff, Rare Books Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C., April 29, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 5, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F5:Goff 1953.04.29
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...

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 Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1538 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washingtoin 7, D.C., October 18, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1957.10.18
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Alden Hopkins to Mildred Bliss. He sends her a final report by W. Warren Edwards, Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship recipient, outlining his recommendations and suggestions for the Garden Scholarship program. He is forwarding a copy of this report based on Michael Rapuano's request. Report is correspondence, F1:Hopkins 1957.08.20. Copies of the letter also sent to Michael Rapuano and John Thacher.

Receipts from Carl E. Nordeen, Jr., R. F. D. 1, Gambrills, Maryland to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 2750 Q Street NW, Washington, D.C. and Letter from Anne Sweeney to Carl E. Nordeen, R.F.D. 1, Gambrills, Maryland, September 1, 1953 to October 31, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Nordeen 1953.10.31
Scope and Contents: Two typescript paid receipts from Carl E. Nordeen for landscaping work at Robert and Mildred Blisses home residence. A follow on letter from Anne Sweeney to Carl E. Nordeen, Jr. informs him that Mildred Bliss feels it is not necessary for him to do any work at her residence because she is trying to find someone to give more time to the garden. A memoradum from Anne Sweeney to Mildred Bliss tells her Carl Nordeen telephoned to say that he is now able to give more time until the end of the...

Invoice from Pitt and Scott Ltd., 1/3 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, E.C.4. to C.I. Denison, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University, 1703 Thirty-Second Street, Washington 7, February 13, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Pitt and Scott Ltd 1957.02.13
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Typescript Air letter with handwritten signature from Pitt & Scott Ltd. to Isabel Denison, Keeper of the Founders' Room for shipping of one case. Instructions were received from T. Rogers & Co. (Packers) Ltd., 14 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, London, S.W.I. Delivery will be effected through Messrs. Tick & Lynch Inc., 21/3 Pearl Street, New York 4, N.Y., U.S.A. All freight and shipping charges to New York port prepaid in London.

Letter from Anne Sweeney to representatives at Horticulture Magazine, Massachusetts Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, December 12, 1941 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1941.12.12
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to representatives at Horiticulture Magazine encloses a copy of a notice about the newly inaugurated Garden Guide Service at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Sweeneys says it may be interesting for the readers visiting Washington, D.C. to know that the Dumbarton Oaks gardens are open to the public through the generosity of Harvard University. She ends with "If you can find the space for this notice between now and the...