Box: F

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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 1958.

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

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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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. C.H. Myers) to Isabel Denison tells her she is still restoring rare books in Ithaca, New York. Most her her work is for Cornell University Library, but she also does outside work. She tells Denison that she would need to see the books to provide an estimate of the cost. The work she does is painstaking and she does not like to feel hurried. Georgia Coffin, the rare book librarian know the quality of her work if she wants to write her.

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Handwritten invoice from Joe Lynch to Mildred Bliss for cleaning books at Dumbarton Oaks. Invoice paid on 6/26/1958.

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Typescript letter from Alton H. Keller, Libarary of Congress to Mildred Bliss listing three manuscripts the Blisses loaned to the Library of Congress for exhibition purposes. Photostat copies of the documents were made as protective measures and the letter asks if Mildred would grant permission to the Library of Congress to keep the photostats for their reference collection. Mildred returns copy of letter to Keller with her permission.

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Note from Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. with a line art drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Alden Hopkins to Helen Van Pelt Wilson thanks her for her letter of March 16 and tells her he is delighted when she comes to visit at Williamsburg and looks forward to more of her visits. He tells her they could meet at Dumbarton Oaks to discuss the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens for an article she is writing for Flower Grower magazine. He would be in town for a talk he was giving at the Washington Club on April 7, 1959 and hopes it is possible to introduce her to...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from John Thacher to Robert and Mildred Bliss encloses a copy of the estimate which G. Morris Steinbraker submitted regarding the completion of the North Vista. He has sent this to Robert Patterson requesting his comments or approval at his earliest convenience. After Thacher hears from Patterson wither he or Miss Carpenter will communicate with the Blisses again. Thacher tells the Blisses that at the moment the only portion of the North Vista...

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letters between Robert Patterson and Anne Sweeney about a Reef Point Gardens plant record card sent to her on Beatrix Farrand's suggestion for use in connection with the planting list at Dumbarton Oaks. Robert Patterson offers details of how the card should be completed. Beatrix Farrand would like to hear Anne Sweeney's opinion before she leaves Bar Harbor on October 31st, so the subject could be discussed with John Thacher when she meets him in Boston. Anne Sweeney...