Box H
Container
Contains 5 Results:
Receipt from T. Rogers & Company, Ltd, 6-14 Mason's Yard, Duke Street, St. James's, London, S.W.1 to Thelma Hammack, Trustees for Harvard University, Dumbarton Oaks Research LIbrary and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington 7, D.C., U.S.A., July 30, 1959 Digital
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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:
"R" Miscellaneous
File — Box: H, Folder: 8, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H8:Rogers 1959.07.30
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...
Letter from Corinna Smith to "Mildred and Bob" Bliss with article by Joseph Lindon Smith, May 1956 Digital
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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:
"S" Miscellaneous
File — Box: H, Folder: 10, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H10:Smith 1956.05.xx
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Handwritten letter from Corinna Smith to Mildred and Robert Woods Bliss announces the publication of Joseph Lindon Smith's book titled, "Tombs, Temples and Ancient Art" edited by her.
Letter from Marvin Ross to Mildred Bliss, 1703 32nd Street, Washington 7, D.C., February 2, 1956 Digital
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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: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H7b:Ross 1956.02.02
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten letter from Marvin C. Ross to Mildred Bliss telling her that his paper on the Riha-Stouma treasure read at the annual meeting of the College Art Association seemed to go over alright. He intends to write it up more formally for publication.He reports that the Strzygowski, Byzantine gold medallion at Dumbarton Oaks was struck and not cast. He lists the reasons why this is important, 1) It was doubtless struck in the imperial mint; 2) It was an issue, not a singleton by...
Planting south side of Dumbarton Oaks, September 1942 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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Tree and Shrub List, Dumbarton Oaks Garden
File — Box: H, Folder: 3, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H3:PL South Side-01
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Three-page typescript copy of planting on the south side of the Dumbarton Oaks house, September 1942. Beatrix Farrand selected plantings for Dumbarton Oaks and provided a description of her design. This may have been the basis for the description of the South Front in the published book, Beatrix Farrand's plant book for Dumbarton Oaks, edited by Diane Kostial McGuire, 1980.
Letter from Barbara Sessions, 2 Brookside Avenue, Claremont, N.H. to Robert Woods Bliss, June 25, 1943 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:
Barbara Sessions
File — Box: H, Folder: 2, item: 8Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, H2:Sessions 1943.06.25
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...