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Garden Gossip, Volume 30, Issue 3, with article titled, "Landscape Design, Restoration of the Gardens and Grounds of Woodlawn Plantation" by Alden Hopkins, March 1955 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Alden Hopkins
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Garden Gossip
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Excerpt from Garden Gossip, recording the activities of the Mid-South, Volume 30, Issue 3, March 1955 of article titled, "Landscape Design, Restoration of the Gardens and Grounds of Woodlawn Plantation" by Alden Hopkins, landscape architect, Williamsburg, Virginia. Article was likely shared with Mildred Bliss.
Report and recommendations from W. Warren Edwards, 1537 Northwest 37th Street, Oklahoma City 18, Oklahoma, Garden Scholarship recipient to Alden Hopkins, Secretary, ASLA Committee on Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia, August 20, 1957 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Alden Hopkins
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins 1957.08.20
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from W. Warren Edwards to Alden Hopkins, Secretary of the ASLA Committee on Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship expresses his appreciation to the committee for selecting him as a Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarship recipient. He hopes "in the future it will be possible to offer an additional two or three scholarships during June and July. The program at Dumbarton Oaks could be under the direction of a practising landscape architect, perhaps the senior...
Note with address of Alden Hopkins in Williamburg, Virginia, 1955-1960 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Alden Hopkins
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F1:Hopkins address
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Two notes with address for Alden Hopkins. One typescript note has: Hopkins, Aldon, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia. The other handwritten in Mildred Blisses handwriting: Alden Hopkins, Box 1521, Williamsburg, Virginia with an added comment by her.
Letter from Earle H. Balch, Embassy of the United States of America, The Hague to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Hotel Des Indes, The Hague, September 6, 1956 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"N" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Balch 1956.09.06
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Earle H. Balch to Mildred Bliss tells her the only first-rate source for old books in The Hague is the firm of Martinus Nijhoff which is situated in the Lange Voorhout not far from their hotel. Balch spoke with Mr. Wouter Nijhoff, the head of the firm and told him of Mildred's interest. Nijhoff remembered meeting Mildred some years ago at Dumbarton Oaks. He is also willing to come by Mildred's hotel. Balch tells her it was a pleasure seeing...
Letter from Elsa A. Needham to Raymond Stites, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., July 9, 1952 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"N" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Needham 1952.07.09
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Copy of typescript letter from Elsa A. Needham, Keeper of the Founder's Room, Dumbarton Oaks on behalf of Mildred Bliss to Raymond Stites, National Gallery of Art, Washington informs him she is returning the book of Degas plates loaned to Mildred Bliss under separate cover. Mildred Bliss wanted the plates to examine the reproducing work of Paul L. Baruch, Inc. Needham thanks him for lending the plates to Mildred Bliss.
Receipts from Carl E. Nordeen, Jr., R. F. D. 1, Gambrills, Maryland to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 2750 Q Street NW, Washington, D.C. and Letter from Anne Sweeney to Carl E. Nordeen, R.F.D. 1, Gambrills, Maryland, September 1, 1953 to October 31, 1953 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"N" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Nordeen 1953.10.31
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Two typescript paid receipts from Carl E. Nordeen for landscaping work at Robert and Mildred Blisses home residence. A follow on letter from Anne Sweeney to Carl E. Nordeen, Jr. informs him that Mildred Bliss feels it is not necessary for him to do any work at her residence because she is trying to find someone to give more time to the garden. A memoradum from Anne Sweeney to Mildred Bliss tells her Carl Nordeen telephoned to say that he is now able to give more time until the end of the...
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
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"N" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Rowley 1953.12.17
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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 John S. Thacher, Harvard University, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Georgetown, Washington, D.C. to the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Northwest, Washington 7, D.C. with a statement of garden charges and estimates from G. Morris Steinbraker and Son Building Construction, 3207 Grace Street, N.W., Washington 7, D.C., April 19-28, 1950 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"N" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 10, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F10:Thacher 1950.04.28
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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from John Thacher to Robert and Mildred Bliss encloses a copy of the estimate which G. Morris Steinbraker submitted regarding the completion of the North Vista. He has sent this to Robert Patterson requesting his comments or approval at his earliest convenience. After Thacher hears from Patterson wither he or Miss Carpenter will communicate with the Blisses again. Thacher tells the Blisses that at the moment the only portion of the North Vista...
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
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"P" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:AS 1941.11.19
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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
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"P" Miscellaneous
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 11, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F11:Heaney 1959.10.29
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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
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"P" Miscellaneous
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
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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"P" Miscellaneous
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.
Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Harold I. Pratt, Garden Club of America, 598 Madison Avenue, New York, N.Y., November 28, 1941 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Publicity, Catalogue House and Dumbarton Oaks
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1941.11.28
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to Mrs. Harold I. Pratt of the Garden Club of America encloses an informational notice about the grounds of Dumbarton Oaks opening to the public. The notice was sent to T.H.B. McKnight asking if it can be published in the Garden Club of America's forthcoming Bulletin. McKnight suggested that the notice be put in Pratt's file for the Spring issue of the Bulletin for the benefit of those Garden Clubs who might be in Washington during...
Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. T.H.B. McKnight, 1615 21st Street N.W., Washington, D.C., November 28, 1941 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Publicity, Catalogue House and Dumbarton Oaks
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1941.11.28B
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to Mrs. T.H.B. McKnight. Based on a telephone conversation between the two, Anne Sweeney encloses Harvard University's plan for the announcement of the opening of the Dumbarton Oaks garden to the public. Sweeney says she will also write to Mrs. Pratt and send her the information to bring it to the attention of the Garden Clubs of America. She mentions in the announcement it does not state that the gates would be closed after the tour...
Letter from Anne Sweeney to representatives at Horticulture Magazine, Massachusetts Horticultural Hall, Boston, Massachusetts, December 12, 1941 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Publicity, Catalogue House and Dumbarton Oaks
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1941.12.12
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Copy of typescript letter from Anne Sweeney, Garden Guide to representatives at Horiticulture Magazine encloses a copy of a notice about the newly inaugurated Garden Guide Service at Dumbarton Oaks in Georgetown, Washington, D.C. Sweeneys says it may be interesting for the readers visiting Washington, D.C. to know that the Dumbarton Oaks gardens are open to the public through the generosity of Harvard University. She ends with "If you can find the space for this notice between now and the...
Exchange of letters between Robert W. Patterson, Bar Harbor, Maine and Anne Sweeney 3101 R Street NW, Washington, D.C. and a copy of a Reef Point Gardens plant record card, October 23-25, 1946 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Sub-Group:
Publicity, Catalogue House and Dumbarton Oaks
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1946.10.25
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Copy of typescript letters between Robert Patterson and Anne Sweeney about a Reef Point Gardens plant record card sent to her on Beatrix Farrand's suggestion for use in connection with the planting list at Dumbarton Oaks. Robert Patterson offers details of how the card should be completed. Beatrix Farrand would like to hear Anne Sweeney's opinion before she leaves Bar Harbor on October 31st, so the subject could be discussed with John Thacher when she meets him in Boston. Anne Sweeney...
Letter from Anne Sweeney to Mrs. Robert Philbrook, Philbrook Farm, Shelburne, New Hampshire, January 27, 1950 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q
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Sub-Group:
Publicity, Catalogue House and Dumbarton Oaks
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 12, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F12:AS 1950.01.27
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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...