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Box H

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Contains 7 Results:

Bookseller information on books for sale, Salmagundi; or the Whim Whams and Opinions of Launcelot Langstaff Esq. and Others by Washington, Irving and titles in Hitler's Personal Library, 1941-1960 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 10, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H10:Salmagundi in the Original Parts
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 Langdon Warner, 63 Garden Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts to Bob, January 24, 1943 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 12, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H12:Warner 1943.01.24
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Correspondence from individuals or businesses with the last name or name beginning with "W". One correspondence is about the Virginia Woolf manuscripts.

Newspaper clipping "Ten Persons in Area Receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards", April 1952 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 7b, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Guggenheim awards 1952.04.xx
Scope and Contents: Newspaper clipping probably from a Washington, D.C. area newspaper titled "Ten Persons in Area Receive Guggenheim Fellowship Awards." Written at the top in pencil: April [?]. Clipping possibly from 1952 highlighted the selection of Marvin C. Ross, curator, Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, for a study of the American soldier and painter, Gen[eral] Seth Eastman. Marvin C. Ross received Guggenheim fellowship awards in 1938, 1939, 1948, 1952. Marvin C. Ross later created the Catalogue of...

Plants for grape arbor bordering the lower Kitchen Garden, Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C., 1926-1951 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 3, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H3:PL Grape Arbor-01
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Copy of typescript instructions with handwritten additions and corrections for grape arbor plantings. Beatrix Farrand selected plants for Dumbarton Oaks.

Letter from Lanning Roper, Park House, Onslow Square, London, S.W.7. to Mildred Bliss, May 20, 1959 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 6, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H6:Roper 1959.05.20
Scope and Contents: Typescript letter on letterhead with handwritten note and signature from Lanning Roper to Mildred Bliss mentioning her kindness in sending him two cables concerning the [Dumbarton Oaks Garden] article. He says he is going to the R.H.S. [Royal Horticultural Society] and shall read the article and see the photographs she sent to them with great interest.He feels the article will arouse considerable interest to Britishers as he is repeatedly asked for information about gardens which...

Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, 1703, 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., March 4, 1957 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 7a, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7a:Ross 1957.03.04
Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss providing her new information about the Dumbarton Oaks collection. He mentions he has an article in the next number of the D.O. [Dumbarton Oaks] Papers on the Dumbarton Oaks (ex. Strzygowski) gold medallion. There was a question whether this medallion was struck or cast. Mr. Young at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston had discovered a new means of determining that. Jack [John Thacher, Director of Dumbarton Oaks] sent the medallion up to...

Letter from Henri Marceau, Pennsylvannia Museum of Art, Fairmount, Philadelphia to Barbara Sessions, Dumbarton Oaks, Georgetown, Washington, D.C., April 13, 1938 Digital

File — Box: H, Folder: 2, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H2:Marceau 1938.04.13
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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.