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Exchange of letters between C.I. Denison and Ralph J. Gifford, Friends of The Huntington Library, San Marino 9, California, January 13 - March 11, 1956 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Denison 1956.03.11
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from C.I. Denison to representatives of the Friends of the Huntington Library requests the illustrated catalog of the Lipton Collection of old silver to be sent to Mildred Bliss. A payment is enclosed. A typescript response letter from Ralph Jenner Gifford of the Friends of the Huntington Library to Mildred Bliss informs her that a complimentary copy of the catalog is being sent; payment is being returned; and a renewal of membership notification is being sent. A...

Letter from Homer D. Crotty, Friends of the Huntington Library, San Marino 15, California to fellow member, December 29, 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington 1949.12.29
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Typescript letter from Homer D. Crotty, Secretary of the 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 1950.

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 Homer D. Crotty, Friends of the Huntington Library, San Marino 15, California to fellow member, December 31, 1952 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington 1952.12.31
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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 1953. An acknowledgement of membership payment is included.

Letter from Homer D. Crotty, Friends of the Huntington Library, San Marino 15, California to fellow member, December 31, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington 1957.12.31
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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 1958.

Leaflet for Friends of the Huntington Library for tax deductible membership benefit and member recommendations, January 6, 1955 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Friends Huntington contribution
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Leaflet likely came with membership renewal letter in 1954 which was intended for Mildred Bliss.

Announcement of the The Huntington Library's publication of "The Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1905-1949, 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 14Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Huntington Botanical Gardens 1949
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Typescript publication announcement from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery about "The Huntington Botanical Gardens, 1905-1949 by William Hertrick. Written in pencil: received July 5, 1949.

List of The Huntington Library Publications to be published May-June 1949, approximately March 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Huntington Publ 1949.05.xx
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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.

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 Rose A. Willgoose to representatives at the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino 15, Calfornia, January 25, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:MB 1950.01.25
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Copy of typescript letter from Rose A. Willgoose on behalf of Mildred Bliss to the Henry E. Huntington Libary and Art Gallery sends a check for membership renewal and inquiries about a requested copy of William Hertrich's History of the Huntington Botanical Garden. The library's response is correspondence, F2:Peterson 1950.02.06.

News of Huntington Library Publications, 4th year, 2nd number, December 1948-January 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:News Huntington Publ 1949.01.xx
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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.

News of Huntington Library Publications, 4th year, 3d number, March - April 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:News Huntington Publ 1949.03.xx
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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.

News of Huntington Library Publications, 5th year, 1st number, September - October 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 13Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:News Huntington Publ 1949.09.xx
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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.

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.

Leaflet of The Nature of Science and other lectures by Edwin Hubble and paid receipt from the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino 9, California to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington 7, D.C., 1954 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 2, item: 15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F2:Nature of Science
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Leaflet of "The nature of science and other lectures" by Edwin Hubble and for sale by the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery. Includes a paid receipt sent from the library to Mildred Bliss.

Exchange of letters between Anne Sweeney on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Leila N. Jones, 77 Miller Road, Morristown, New Jersey on the acquisition of Phytanthoza Iconographia for the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library, May 21-June 22, 1948 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3:AS 1948.06.22
Scope and Contents: Exchange of letters between and Anne Sweeney on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Leila N. Jones (Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones) about acquiring her volumes of Phytanthoza Iconographia. Leila Jones sent two volumes of the set of books and keys sent to Mildred Bliss for examination. An analysis of the volumes is included along with a letter from Dorothy S. Manks, the Massachusetts Horticultural Society librarian comparing a report of the Jones volumes completed by Caroline Shillaber, Harvard University...

Description of the James Foundation of New York, Inc. 39 East 69th Street, New York 21, N.Y., between 1941-1965 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3:James Foundation of New York
Scope and Contents: Includes correspondence from a people and a corporation with a name that starts with the letter J. One correspondence is from Anne Sweeney responding on behalf of Dumbarton Oaks and Mildred Bliss to Mrs. Gilbert E. Jones (also known as Leila N. Jones), about garden book volumes and prints. Correspondence to a company to order picture postcards with views of the Dumbarton Oaks garden included. One unsent Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection picture postcard of the Herbaeous Border...

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.

Orders for picture postcards of Dumbarton Oaks from Anne Sweeney and John Thacher, Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C. to Judd & Detwiler Co., Florida Avenue & Eckington Place, N.E., Washington, D.C., February 7, 1945 - April 7, 1949 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3:Judd and Detwiler 1949.04.07
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Series of orders from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide and John Thacher, USN Lieutenant Commander to Judd and Detwiler Co. to print postcards of the Dumbarton Oaks from Stewart Brothers Photographers prints of the property.

Included is a list of Dumbarton Oaks Prints received from Stewart dated, Feb 7, 1945 and an example of a picture postcard.

Notes on plants and garden sketches, 1948-1967 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MBnotes 19xx.xx.xx
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Handwritten notes by Mildred Bliss of lists of Chrysanthemums and plants and two sketches, a garden plan and a fountain. Notes likely intended for Matthew Kearney.

Postcard from Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss to Matthew Kearney, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., August 12, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1957.08.12
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

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.

Letter from Mildred Bliss, Colony Club of New York, 564 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y. to Matthew Kearney, June 27, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1958.06.27
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Plants for Robert and Mildred Bliss's Q Street residence, between 1948-1967 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:Qstreet 19xx.xx.xx
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

Deposit receipt for the National Bank of Washington, Washington, D.C., July 16, 1962 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:NationalBankDeposit 1962.07.16
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Deposit receipt for the National Bank of Washington, Washington, D.C. for $211.69. On verso is written in ink: "Nothing is lost and all is harvest in the end".