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Box: F

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Contains 13 Results:

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.

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.

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.

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., February 7, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.02.07
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...

Exchange of letters and invoice between Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York and C. I. Denison and note from Mildred Bliss, March 27 - April 3, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Denison 1958.04.03
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Exchange of letters Fleda Straight Myers and Isabel Denison about the three volumes that were repaired by Myers. Myers has returned them to Dumbarton Oaks via Railway Express. Myers describes the conservation work she did on each volume. An statement of work and cost is conveyed. A note by Mildred Bliss indicates she is delighted with the beautiful conservation work repairing the three volumes. A check is being sent to Myers for her work.

Partial letter from Sir Percy Loraine, 19. Wilton Crescent, S.W.I. to Mildred Bliss, December 11, 1955 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 4, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F4:Loraine 1955.12.11
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Typescript partial letter from Sir Percy Loraine to Mildred Bliss with a list of titles that Frederick Goff, the Chief of the Rare Book Division of the Library of Congress may be interested in acquiring. An extract of this partial letter was sent to Goff on December 20, 1955.

Description and price list for reproductions from the Library of Congress, Historic American Buildings Survey collection and description of other collections of Early American Architecture held by the Prints and Photographs Division, October 1956 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 5, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F5:HABS
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Typescript information sheets about the Library of Congress's Historic American Buildings Survey held by the Prints and Photographs Division. It lists the number of drawings, photogaphs and typed pages of hisotircal and architectural data, a printed catalog and informs of the reproduction of records with price list, and no publication restrictions.

Letter from William H. Forsyth, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, N.Y. to Mr. and Mrs. Bliss, May 8, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Forsyth 1951.05.08
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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.

Letter from Elsa A. Needham to Marguerite Northrup, Art & Book Shop, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 28, New York, July 20, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 7, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F7:Needham 1953.07.20
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Copy of typescript letter from Elsa A. Needham to Marguerite Northrup thanks her for sending a reply and the information to Mildred Bliss.

Letter from Alden Hopkins, Williamsburg, Virginia to Members of the Garden Advisory Committee, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection, January 20, 1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1959.01.20
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Alden Hopkins to the members of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Advisory Committee, Michael Rapuano, Robert Patterson, Bradford Williams, Leon Zach and the Dumbarton Oaks Director, John Thacher. He encloses two blackline prints covering the reconstruction of the Camellia Garden (96-03, revised 1-13-[19]59) and the completion of the new planting of the Ellipse (96-07, revised 1-15-[19]59). G. Morris Steinbraker & Son of Georgetown provided an...

Letter from Joshua F. Rowley, The National Trust, 42, Queen Anne's Gate, London, S.W.1. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street West, North Washington, D.C., U.S.A., December 17, 1953 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Rowley 1953.12.17
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Joshua F. Rowley to Mildred Bliss tell her she might be interested in the prospectus which he is sending under separate cover by sea mail for their next Summer Schoool at Attingham. If she has any friends who would like a copy, he will be delighted to send them one. He hopes she enjoyed her visit to England even though he was able to do little to help her see what she wanted. He hopes she will be back in 1954 and let him know if there is...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to J. Preston Swecker, Potomac Rose Society, 1352 Iris Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. and Rose Potomac Society membership card and newsletter, November 19, 1941 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:AS 1941.11.19
Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney to J. Preston Swecker tells him she received a membership card to the Potomac Rose Society which she does not feel she can accept. "Somehow, perhaps because of my new role as amateur garden guide at Dumbarton Oaks, word has been passed around that I am sort of an 'expert' but I assure you such is not the case. I am afraid I do not merit the honor which is intended by the offer of this membership, but if you are not expecting too much knowledge of...

Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Robert Philbrook, Philbrook Farm, Shelburne, New Hampshire, January 27, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1950.01.27
Scope and Contents: Copy of a letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Robert Philbrook informs her of a telephone inquiry from Mrs. Keltonasking to send some data in regards to Dumbarton Oaks which might be used as a basis for a paper to be read before her local garden club. Sweeney reports she told Mrs. Kelton there were no descriptive booklets on the gardens but she would send a booklet about the Dumbarton Oaks Collection and the work that is going on at Dumbarton Oaks along with a few pictures of the gardens. She...