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Box: F

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Contains 8 Results:

Letter from Clifford Peterson, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino 15, California to Rose A. Willgoose, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., February 6, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Peterson 1950.02.06
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Clifford Peterson from the publications office at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery responds to Rose A. Willgoose about a copy of Hertrich's Huntington Botanical Gardens which according to his records was already mailed together with the book, Mark Twain to Mrs Fairbanks to Dumbarton Oaks Library on May 24, 1949. Copy of letter also sent to Ralph J. Gifford.

Telegram from Mildred Bliss, Baltimore, Maryland to Matthew Kearney, Dumbarton Oaks, Que and 32nd St., January 8, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1957.01.08
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Letter and photographs 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., March 16, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.03.16
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 Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to C. I. Denison, May 7, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1957.05.07
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison encloses papers for the fly leaves for restoration work the Thornton two volumes and the Costa volume for Mildred Bliss to approve.

Letter from Elsa A. Needham to Frederick R. Goff, Rare Book Division, The Library of Congress, June 17, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 5, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F5:Needham 1952.06.17
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 Carla C. Marzoli, La Bibliofila, via Manzoni N. 21, Milano, Italia and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1527 28th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., July 12 - August 19, 1954 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Marzoli 1954.08.19
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Typescript letter between Carla C. Marzoli, Caligrapher and Mildred Bliss asks if she can meet with Bliss again before departing the United States. C. Isabel Denison responds on behalf of Mildred Bliss offering Bliss's regrets that she was unable to connect before Marzoli's departure.

Letter from Roma B. Graff, Potomac Rose Society, 242 Peabody Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. to Anne Sweeney, 3245 S Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., December 1, 1941 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:Graff 1941.12.01
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Roma B. Graff from the Potomac Rose Society to Anne Sweeney expresses the Board of Directors appreciation for her courtesy in showing members through the Dumbarton Oaks garden at the time of their October meeting. The members were greatly pleased to have the opportunity to view the famous garden and it was made more enjoyable by the explanations and comments given by Anne and James Bryce. She ends by thanking Anne for a very enjoyable...

Note with address of Alden Hopkins in Williamburg, Virginia, 1955-1960 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins address
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Two notes with address for Alden Hopkins. One typescript note has: Hopkins, Aldon, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia. The other handwritten in Mildred Blisses handwriting: Alden Hopkins, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia with an added comment by her.