Box: F

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Includes correspondence from the Huntington Library to Mildred Bliss as a Member of the Friends of the Huntington Library; issues of the "News of Huntington Library publications"; correspondence to or from Mildred Bliss or her office staff concerning the purchase of Huntington Library publications or brochures.

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List of Dumbarton Oaks garden projects created by Matthew Kearney or that Mildred Bliss intended for him to complete between 1964 and 1965. The projects were for the Pebble Garden, Rose Garden, Ellipse, Urn Terrace, Fellows' Quarters, Garden Library, Pre-Columbian Museum, Passageway to the Museum, Box Walk, Bowling Green, Faun in the Lovers' Lane Pool, Swimming Pool and Loggia, and the Orchard. An address for Mildred Bliss while she is in Athens, Greece is included.

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 postcard from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her the books arrived safely.

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...

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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and people and companies with the first or last name of M. Includes a correspondence with a drawing of a mural in the Church of the Holy Apostles, Constantinople (now Istanbul), a mailed picture postard of "The Famous 'Vinales' Valley, Pinar del Rio, Cuba, and a photograph stamped 1938 of a model of Dumbarton Oaks with an open museum courtyard.

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Robert Patterson to Anne Sweeney tells her he was very glad to get the copy of your letter to Beatrix Farrand and the excellent report which went with it. He has written to Beatrix Farrand and John Thacher to settle the question of the Garden Guide. He reports he will probably not be in Washington until the end of January, but on this next visit will allow time enought to go over thoroughly all the points which you have brought up as well as...

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Copy of typescript letter with handwritten signature from G. Morris Steinbraker on behalf of his company to Alden Hopkins provides him an estimate for construction work on plan #96-03 for the reconstruction of the Camellia Garden (or Lilac Circle) for $3,620.00. He has not included the cost of plant removal or planting of any kind.