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Contains 10 Results:

"J" Miscellaneous, 1946-1949

Sub-Group — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
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...

"M" Miscellaneous, 1938-1959

Sub-Group — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

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.

Music, approximately 1958

Sub-Group — Container: Box: F, Folder: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

Music realted leaflets for the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont; Concise Encyclopaedia of Music; and Saison Musicale de Royaumont.

Robert W. Patterson, 1949-1959

Sub-Group — Container: Box: F, Folder: 13Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence chiefly between Robert W. Patterson, consulting landscape architecture of Dumbarton Oaks and Mildred Bliss discussing Dumbarton Oaks Garden projects. One correspondence is from Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield relating a meeting with Robert W. Patterson. Also included is an unsent picture postcard with a photograph of the Dumbarton Oaks Herbaceous Border printed on it and a list of individuals who submitted for Dumbarton Oaks Garden Scholarships in 1959.

Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q, 1941-1959

Sub-Series — Container: Box: F, Folder: 1-15Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence sent or received by Mildred Bliss for individuals with the last name of Hopkins to Q.

Note on and line art drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople from A.M. Friend, Jr., Dumbarton Oaks Harvard University, Washington 7, D.C., March 25, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 6, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F6:Friend 1951.xx.xx
Scope and Contents:

Note from Albert Mathias Friend, Jr. with a line art drawing of the Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople.

Letter and photographs 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., March 16, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.03.16
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...

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
Scope and Contents:

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
Scope and Contents:

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.

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
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.