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Contains 4 Results:

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 Howell J. Heaney, Free Library of Philadelphia, Logan Square, Philadelphia 3, Pennsylvania to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., October 29, 1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Heaney 1959.10.29
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Howell J. Heaney to Mildred Bliss tells her he is sorry he was unable to take her call. The people whom Miss Shaffer suggested to catalogue a fine private library were: Miss Elisabeth Woodburn (Mrs. Keith Robertson), Booknoll Farm, Hopewell, New Jersey; Miss Elizabeth Baer, Evergreen House Foundation, 4545 North Charles Street, Baltimore 10, Maryland, Miss Dorothy Miner, The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore 1, Maryland; and Miss Jane Quinby,...

Letter from Enid Eder Perkins, 4000 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington 16, D.C. to Mrs. and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss , 1537 28th Street N.W., Washington, D.C., November 2, 1956 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Perkins 1956.11.02
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Handwritten letter in caligraphy from Enid Eder Perkins to Robert and Mildred Bliss informs them that she has opened a studio in Washington, D.C. where she will be happy to continue to fill their requirements for lettering and illuminating of resolutions, scrolls, citations, etc. She will plan to be in New York about once a week or can go their for the Blisses convenience. Perkins can be reached by telephone in Washington.

Invoice from Pitt and Scott Ltd., 1/3 St. Paul's Churchyard, London, E.C.4. to C.I. Denison, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University, 1703 Thirty-Second Street, Washington 7, February 13, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Pitt and Scott Ltd 1957.02.13
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Typescript Air letter with handwritten signature from Pitt & Scott Ltd. to Isabel Denison, Keeper of the Founders' Room for shipping of one case. Instructions were received from T. Rogers & Co. (Packers) Ltd., 14 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, London, S.W.I. Delivery will be effected through Messrs. Tick & Lynch Inc., 21/3 Pearl Street, New York 4, N.Y., U.S.A. All freight and shipping charges to New York port prepaid in London.