Box H
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., November 19 between 1951-1960 Digital
FOUND IN:
Dumbarton Oaks
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Collection:
Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Series:
Correspondence
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Sub-Series:
Mildred Bliss Office Files, R-Z
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Sub-Group:
Marvin C. Ross
File — Box: H, Folder: 7b, item: 34Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 19xx.11.19
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss reports that Mr. Wittig, a publisher from Hamburg wants to do a picture book about Mount Athos and asked if I would be willing to do the introduction and captions. Mr. Wittig had the most beautiful pictures imaginable made by a Benedictine monk who went there. They looked at other books on Mount Athos at Dumbarton Oaks and the pictures were all wretched in comparison.Not only were Wittig's photographs of the landscape and...