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Copy of typescript letter from Mildred Bliss' secretary to Professor Albert A. Friend telling him that Mrs. [Mildred] Bliss asked her to write with their bookbinder's name and address: Edward Kruger, Bookbinder 181-183 Jericho Turnpike, Floral Park, Long Island, New York. She reports that he is well recommended and Mrs. Bliss has found his work satisfactory and his prices reasonable.

Scope and Contents: Typescript program for the Byzantine Symposium on Byzantine and the Slavs held at Dumbarton Oaks, April 24th-April 26th, 1952. Symposium lead under the direction of the Reverend Francis Dvornik, Professor of Byzantine History at The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University. The three day program includes speakers: Roman Jakobson, Samuel Hazzard Cross Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature, Harvard University presented "Early Slavic Poetry and Its Byzantine...

Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from A.M. [Albert Mathias] Friend, Jr. to Mildred Bliss expresses it is too bad about the Liszt book and the Harvard Press. He does not see why they can not get it out in 1950 if they can get a fairly final manuscript this autumn. He thanks Mildred for the copy of the letter to Jean Seznec. He hopes very much he will do it and feels after this he simply cannot refuse-he is a member of the Board of Scholars and the book is all part of Dumbarton Oaks. He feels the book will...

Scope and Contents: Typescript letter with handwritten signature from A.M. [Albert Mathias] Friend, Jr. to Robert Woods and Mildred Bliss informs them that at the meeting of the Board of Scholars held in Washington on April 27th, 1951, it was voted to hold a Symposim at Dumbarton Oaks on "Byzantium and the Slavs". This Symposium will be conducted under the direction of Reverend Francis Dvornik, Professor of Byzantine History at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University and it will be held on Thursday, April 24th to...

Scope and Contents: Handwritten letter from A.M. [Albert Mathias] Friend, Jr. to Mildred Bliss suggesting they should send [Lorenzo Tardo] Tardo something to help his Ottoeco along [L'ottoeco nei mss. melurgici. A transcription in modern and Byzantine notation of the music of the Oktoechos (Idiomeli del Vespro" and "Idiomeli del Mattutino") from manuscripts at Grottaferrata, and in some other libraries of Italy and the Near East]. He seems very prolific these days, but he did give a charming lecture and made...

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Line art drawing of a Byzantine apse with initials P.A.U [Paul A. Underwood) in lower left corner.