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Copy of typescript letter from Isabel Denison to the Director of the Microfilm Department, New York Public Library asks if the datalogue of the Bibliotheque Nitonale is on microfilm and if so what is the price. A response letter from R.H. Carruthers, Chief, Photographic Service Division of the New York Public Library tells Denison that he does not know of a microfilmed catalogue and offers the best source for the information.

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Typescript letter with handwritten signature from Roald Dahl to Mildred Bliss thanks her for sending music to the poem "High Flight". He asks that additional points be clarified with the composer before sending the music on to London. The poem High Flight is with letter.

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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.

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

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Handwritten picture postcard from Donna Topazia Caetani Markevitch to Mildred Bliss sends her apologies for being unable to attend the Nadia Boulanger concert because her husband Igor is giving a concert on the same day.

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Typescript letter between Carla C. Marzoli, Caligrapher and Mildred Bliss asks if she can meet with Bliss again before departing the United States. C. Isabel Denison responds on behalf of Mildred Bliss offering Bliss's regrets that she was unable to connect before Marzoli's departure.

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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.

Scope and Contents: Handwritten and typescript letters and notes between Mildred Bliss, Elsa A. Needham, her secretary, Charles C. Wall, Superintendent of Mt. Vernon and representatives of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union about the Blisses donation of the Parklyn's aquatint of Mt. Vernon. There are handwritten on notes by Mildred Bliss with contact informtion for Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel, Regent of the Mt. Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union; letters from Mrs. Hope K.H. Powel and Elizabeth H....

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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.

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Handwritten and copies of typescript letters between Monroe Wheeler, Museum of Modern Art, New York and Mildred Bliss about making facsimiles available from a copy of a Rouault letter which she donated to the museum. She will explore with Rouault the possibility of publishing one or all three of the items. She will tell Wheeler of her negotiations upon her return from travel in October.

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Letter from Lawrence Grant White to Robert Woods Bliss tells him the formula and process for painting the letters.

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Copy of typescript letter from Elsa A. Needham to the Metropolitan Museum of Art on behalf of Mildred Bliss asks them to send a copy of Gisela Richter's work on Greek Form if one becomes available.

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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.

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

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Correspondence sent by or to Alden Hopkins, Garden Advisory Committee Member and Consulting Landscape Architect for Dumbarton Oaks. Includes an issue of Garden Gossip, March 1955 with an article titled, "Landscape design, restoration of the gardens and grounds of Woodlawn Plantation" by Alden Hopkins, landscape architect, Williamsburg, Virginia.

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Includes correspondence from the Huntington Library to Mildred Bliss as a Member of the Friends of the Huntington Library; issues of the "News of Huntington Library publications"; correspondence to or from Mildred Bliss or her office staff concerning the purchase of Huntington Library publications or brochures.

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...

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

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Includes correspondence sent to or received by Mildred Bliss or her office staff with persons whose name begins with "L" or journal name begins with "L".

Scope and Contents: Correspondence to or from Mildred Bliss' secretary and Frederick R. Goff, Chief, Rare Books Division of the Library of Congress. Also includes an analysis of plates missing from the book, "Botanist's Repository" in the Library of Congress collection and Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs information and price list for the Historic American Building Survey collection, the Pictorial Archives of Early American Architecture collection, and the Architecture of the Deep South...

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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.

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Correspondence between Elsa Needham, as Keeper of the Founder's Room, and on behalf of Mildred Bliss and Marguerite Northrup, the art and book shop supervisor about the purchase of a book and information on articles of interest.

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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.

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

Scope and Contents: Correspondence between Mildred Bliss through her secretary Elsa Needham and people and one organization (National Trust (London)) whose last name or name begins with "N". One correspondence is about a person with the last name of "N". One correspondence is an Air Mail letter sent from the Deputy Secretary of the National Trust, Joshua Francis Rowley, from London to Mildred Bliss, Washington, D.C. One correspondence is from John Thacher to Mildred Bliss discussing the Dumbarton Oaks Garden,...