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Box: F

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Contains 7 Results:

Book orders from Rose Willgoose to Office of Publications, Huntington Library, San Marino 15, California and paid receipts from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California, March 16 - May 9, 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:MB 1949.03.16
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Copies of typescript book orders from Rose A. Willgoose, Mildred Bliss's secretary to the Office of Publications, Huntington Library and paid receipts for books sent.

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., April 24, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.04.24
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...

Note card with instructions for eating a Haden mango by David Fairchild, The Kampong, Coconut Grove, Florida, between 1948-1967 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:HadenMango 19xx.xx.xx
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Letter from Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to C. I. Denison, July 10, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1957.07.10
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison updates her on the progress of the restoration work on the books sent to her.

Exchange of letters between Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss and representatives of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union on the donation of Parklyn's 1797 aquatint of Mount Vernon, July 5, 1951-January 26, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Mt Vernon 1952.01.26
Scope and Contents: Handwritten and typescript letters and notes between Mildred Bliss, Elsa A. Needham, her secretary, Charles C. Wall, Superintendent of Mt. Vernon and representatives of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union about the Blisses donation of the Parklyn's aquatint of Mt. Vernon. There are handwritten on notes by Mildred Bliss with contact informtion for Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel, Regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; letters from Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel and Elizabeth H....

Letter from Robert W. Patterson, Bar Harbor, Maine to Anne Sweeney, 3101 R St., N.W., Washington, D.C., September 25, 1947 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:RP 1947.09.25
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Robert Patterson to Anne Sweeney tells her the prospects of getting a garden center in the not too distant future are still quite bright, although entirely in the air. He tells her she will have books piled on her office floor for some time before permanent library shelves are ready in a new location. He reports that John Thacher has agreed to work with Anne on the small garden booklet. When the Catalog House plan is no longer needed,...

Letter from Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eight Street, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., May 3, 1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1959.05.03
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Alden Hopkins to Mildred Bliss tells her he has received an estimate on the cost of the stonework and construction of the Lilac or Camellia Circle from Mr. [G. Morris] Steinbraker. He has gone over the requirements for this reconstruction on the ground with Mr. Steinbraker and pointed out that the wall cap must be the same as that toppingon the wall above the cutting garden. The work will be done in accordance to his drawing, #93-03 which was...