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Box H

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Contains 4 Results:

Letter from Ellery Sedgwick?, 2816 O Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. to Mrs. Bliss, December 24, 1957 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 10, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H10:unknown 1957.12.24
Scope and Contents: Correspondence between Mildred Bliss or her office staff and individuals, business, and organizations with the last name or name beginning with "S". One correspondence is from Corinna Lindon Smith about her edited article written by Joseph Lindon Smith.The individuals, corporations, and organizations are: Michael Stettler, David A. Randall on behalf of the Scribner Book Store (New York), bookseller information for "Salamangundi in the original parts", Percy Ernest Schramm, Berta...

Letter from Marvin Ross to Robert and Mildred Bliss, 1703, 32nd Street, Washington 7, November 1, 1956 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 7b, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1956.11.01
Scope and Contents:

Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred and Robert Bliss wishing them a "happy Dumbarton Oaks Founder's Day". He tells them they were very clever to buy the paste cameo of St. Theophano. He says that aside from being beautiful, it [cameo] helps to resolve an important question about the origin of such objects. He reports that he has found only one other bronze lamp similar to the one they gave to the Dumbarton Oaks Collection, and it is in the British Museum.

List of trees at Dumbarton Oaks, Section A, 1940 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 3, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H3:PL Trees-1940-Section A-01
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Two-page typescript copy of list of trees in section A, Dumbarton Oaks. Included on list is tree number, name of tree, and circumference in inches at 4 ft above ground. List of trees shown on a map. Beatrix Farrand selected trees for Dumbarton Oaks.

Exchange of letters between C.I. Denison, Ethel Burnet Clark, William Logan Fox, Alexander D. Wainwright, and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss regarding an incomplete letter by Richard Rush to H.D. Gilpin, June 2 - October 20, 1955 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 8, item: 10Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H8:Rush 1955.10.20
Scope and Contents: Correspondence and financial records like receipts and invoices between Mildred Bliss or her secretary and individuals and corporations whose last name or name begins with "R". Some correspondence involve the acquisition, purchase or bookbinding of books or library items. Individuals or corporations include: Riggs National Bank, Rodale Books Incorporated, Russian Orthodox Church (St. John the Baptist), Charles Ratton, Nicholas Rauch, S.J., T. Rogers &amp Company, Ltd., Ludwig...