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Telegram from Mildred Bliss, Baltimore, Maryland to Matthew Kearney, Dumbarton Oaks, Que and 32nd St., January 8, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 7Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:MB 1957.01.08
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Correspondence between Mildred Bliss and Matthew Kearney, the Superintendent of the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens and Grounds.

List of Dumbarton Oaks Garden projects, Summer 1964 - Winter 1965 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 3a, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F3a:Kearney 1965.xx.xx
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List of Dumbarton Oaks garden projects created by Matthew Kearney or that Mildred Bliss intended for him to complete between 1964 and 1965. The projects were for the Pebble Garden, Rose Garden, Ellipse, Urn Terrace, Fellows' Quarters, Garden Library, Pre-Columbian Museum, Passageway to the Museum, Box Walk, Bowling Green, Faun in the Lovers' Lane Pool, Swimming Pool and Loggia, and the Orchard. An address for Mildred Bliss while she is in Athens, Greece is included.

Letter from Fleda S. Myers, 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to C. I. Denison, June 21, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 24Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1958.06.21B
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she returned from a three week trip to the Midwest. She will look for the Fulkens catalog card. She asks questions for Mrs. Bliss to answer before she begins some restoration work.

Postcard from Fleda S. Myers, 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to C.I. Denison, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., July 5, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 25Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1958.07.05
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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her the Coleridge book arrived safely. The leather is so thin and fragile it may not be able to be restored, but she will try.

Postcard from Fleda S. Myers, 614 Wyckoff Road, Ithaca, New York to C. I. Denison, Founders' Room, Harvard Research Foundation, Dumbarton Oaks Library, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., September 6, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 26Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1958.09.06
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Handwritten post card from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her she is moving from Ithaca, N.Y. to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She will pack up the Dumbarton Oaks books she is working on and drive them to Pittsfield.

Letter from Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 24 Roberta Road, Pittsfield, Massachusetts to C. I. Denison, October 29, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 27Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1958.10.29
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Staight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her about the move to Pittsfield, Massachusetts. She reports doing considerable work on the Dumbarton Oaks books.

Letter from Fleda S. Myers, "MerryOaks", 24 Roberta Road, Pittsfield, Massachusetts to C. I. Denison, November 3, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 28Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Myers 1958.11.03
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Handwritten letter from Fleda Straight Myers to Isabel Denison tells her there is no volume number on th de Leth.

Notes on Dumbarton Oaks books returned and taken by Fleda Myers, October 31, 1957 - February 28, 1958 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 29Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:notes 1957.10.31
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Correspondence between C.I. (Isabel) Denison, Keeper of the Founder's Room and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Mrs. Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. Clyde H. Myers), a bookbinder and restorer of rare books at the Cornell University Library. The letters discuss books sent to Fleda Straight Myers for binding and restoring. Includes an interoffice communication between C.I. Denison and John Thacher, Dumbarton Oak Director regarding insurance for the garden books.

Notes on restoration work for Dumbarton Oaks books , 1958-1959 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 30Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:notes 1958.05.12
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between C.I. (Isabel) Denison, Keeper of the Founder's Room and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Mrs. Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. Clyde H. Myers), a bookbinder and restorer of rare books at the Cornell University Library. The letters discuss books sent to Fleda Straight Myers for binding and restoring. Includes an interoffice communication between C.I. Denison and John Thacher, Dumbarton Oak Director regarding insurance for the garden books.

Dumbarton Oaks interoffice communication from C. I. Denison to John Thacher, May 13, 1957 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 8, item: 31Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F8:Denison 1957.05.13
Scope and Contents:

Correspondence between C.I. (Isabel) Denison, Keeper of the Founder's Room and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Mrs. Fleda Straight Myers (Mrs. Clyde H. Myers), a bookbinder and restorer of rare books at the Cornell University Library. The letters discuss books sent to Fleda Straight Myers for binding and restoring. Includes an interoffice communication between C.I. Denison and John Thacher, Dumbarton Oak Director regarding insurance for the garden books.

Pamphlet for Cercle Culturel de Royaumont, Asnieres-sur-oise, 1953-1960 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q / Sub-Group: Music
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 9, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F9:Cercle Culturel de Royaumont
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Music realted leaflets for the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont; Concise Encyclopaedia of Music; and Saison Musicale de Royaumont.

Pamphlet for The Concise Encyclopaedia of Music and Musicians, 1950-1960 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q / Sub-Group: Music
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 9, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F9:Concise Encycl of Music
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Music realted leaflets for the Cercle Culturel de Royaumont; Concise Encyclopaedia of Music; and Saison Musicale de Royaumont.

Leaflet for the Abbaye de Royaumont, Saison musicale de Royaumont, 1958 Digital

FOUND IN: Dumbarton Oaks / Collection: Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives / Series: Correspondence / Sub-Series: Mildred Bliss Office Files, Hopkins-Q / Sub-Group: Music
File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 9, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F9:Saison Musicale de Royaumont 1958
Scope and Contents:

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

Letter from Mildred Bliss to William A. Jackson, Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 6, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:MB 1950.05.06
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...

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., May 8, 1950 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1950.05.08
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...

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., January 5, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.01.05
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...

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...

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 23, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.02.23
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...

Letter from Theresa G. Elliot, 84 Prescott Street, Cambridge 38, Massachusetts to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington 7, D.C., March 8, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Eliot 1951.03.08
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Typescript letter from Theresa Garrett Eliot (Mrs. Henry Ware Eliot) to Mildred Bliss asks her opinion on a sample of carpet for the Dickenson Room. William Jackson approves of it and it is within budget. She also asks for Mildred Bliss's ideas on the floor and wall treatment.

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., April 9, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.04.09
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...

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...

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., April 24, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 9Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.04.24
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...

Letter from William A. Jackson, Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Library to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., May 15, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.05.15
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...

Letter from William A. Jackson, Library of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Houghton Library to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 Twenty-eighth Street, Georgetown, Washington 7, D.C., May 17, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:Jackson 1951.05.17
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...

Letter from Mildred Bliss to William A. Jackson, Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 28, 1951 Digital

File — Container: Box: F, Folder: 14, item: 12Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, F14:MB 1951.05.28
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...