Box H
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, December 3, approximately 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: 36Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1960.12.03
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss with a typescript copy of the apocryphal legend of the ascent of Alexander the Great published by R.S. Loomis "Alexander's celestial journey" in The Burlington Magazine, no. CLXXXI, Volume XXXII, April 1918, pl. 136-140. Marvin thought Mildred would enjoy the story. Marvin adds "subject cut intaglio on a gold ring in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. This is the only known example of the subject in goldsmith's work."He tells...