Box H

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Correspondence including letters and telegrams to, from, or about Barbara Sessions, librarian at Dumbarton Oaks and Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection.

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Typescript Postal Telegraph night cable letter from unknown correspondent to Barbara Sessions, Mildred Bliss, and Robert Woods Bliss while in Paris. The correspondent acknowledges the success reported in their letters and suggests sailing as soon after September thirtieth as possible. Mentions also seeing Mrs. Elisina Tyler and that Census letter mailed October third. Offers greetings to them and Mademoiselle Malye, the Blisses secretary in Paris, France.

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Typescript Postal Telegraph cable from unknown correspondent to Barbara Sessions, Mildred Bliss, and Robert Woods Bliss informing them to accept owner's proposal and offers "Bon Voyage" indicating the correspondent was to sail soon.

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Typescript copy of Postal Telegraph cable from unknown correspondent addressed to Robert Woods Bliss, but intended for Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss. Correspondent indicates that owner will give written guarantee of one way insurance reimbursement, but wishes to avoid insuring in Paris?. Correspondent asks for immediate reply on the matter.

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Typescript letter from Henri Marceau on Pennsylvania Museum of Art letterhead thanking Barbara Sessions, librarian at Dumbarton Oaks for Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss. He acknowledges the receipt of material that has been seen and stamped by the French consulate in Philadelphia. He mentions it [the material] was sent special delivery to catch the Europa [possibly a transatlantic ship]. He hopes the photographs and description will be of service to M.[Monsieur] Mallet.

Scope and Contents: Copy of typescript letter from Robert Woods Bliss to Barbara Sessions, Librarian at Dumbarton Oaks, sharing his and Mildred Bliss' distress that Barbara needed to go to the hospital after arriving in Claremont, New Hampshire. He expresses their concern was lessened after hearing she had been out and about. They hope to receive glowing accounts of her "diggings" and to learn that the change of scene and air was beneficial. He mentions that during a recent meeting of the Administrative...

Scope and Contents: Typescript RCA Radiogram from Barbara Sessions, Dumbarton Oaks Librarian, to Mildred Bliss and Robert Woods Bliss informing them that the Italian Decree [anti-Jewish laws] is effective October 16 and deprives [Teodoro "Doro"] Levi of professorship [Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Cagliari]. The situation is desperate since the stipend is their only income. She asks if [Levi's] services as a filed [e.g. field] archeologist [e.g. archaeologist] could possibly be...

Scope and Contents: Typescript copy of a letter written in longhand sent from Barbara Sessions, Dumbarton Oaks Librarian, to Robert Woods Bliss responding to his letter about her health and return to Dumbarton Oaks for the fall term. She says it touches her that he and the other members of the Board [Administrative Committee] have been thinking of her. She feels that rate of progress of recovery from her illness does not securely promise a return to full usefulness when the new term begins. She believes she can...

Scope and Contents: Copies of nine typescript letters, five in English and four in French to various recipients informing them that Barbara Sessions, Dumbarton Oaks Librarian, would be traveling to area to acquire books and publications for holes in the Dumbarton Oaks collection and asks for the recipient to meet with her and offer advice or offer help to her if needed. Letters sent to Professor Wolfgang Friedrich "Fritz" Volbach, Vatican Library, Rome; His Excellency, The Honorable Wm [William] C. Bullett,...