Box E
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Contains 34 Results:
Letter from the conservator, Musee de Dijon, Palais des Etats de Bourgogne to Robert Wood Bliss, September 23, 1955 Digital
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Dumbarton Oaks
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Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
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Correspondence
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Mildred Bliss Office Files, A-Havey
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Henri Focillon
File — Box: E, Folder: 18, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E18:Focillon 1955.09.23
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Typescript letter with in French with a handwritten signature from the Conservateur of the Musee de Dijon to Robert Woods Bliss. Translated to English he tells him that a street in Dijon has been named in honor of Henri Focillon. On the occasion of the inauguration of this path, with the approval of Mrs. Focillon, he is going to present an exhibition on Focillion, as an art historian, and his father, Victor Focillon as an engraver. He asks Robert Bliss to be a part of the sponsorship...
Note by Mildred Bliss about Franz Liszt autograph letters offered by Mrs. Mary Benjamin, Feburary 7, 1957 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, A-Havey
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"D" Miscellaneous
File — Box: E, Folder: 3, item: 11Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E3:letter 1957.02.07
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Handwritten note by Mildred Bliss indicating note may have been attached to a package containing autograph letters by Franz Liszt which was the property of Miss Mary A. Benjamin, 18 East 77th Street, New York City, New York. The letters have been offered for sale to Mildred Bliss pending the receipt of satisfactory publication rights.
Letter from Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss's secretary to Albert A. Friend, 10 Mercer Street, Princeton, New Jersey, January 10, 1950 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, A-Havey
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A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 1Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Bliss 1950.01.10
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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.
Program of Symposium on Byzantium and the Slavs at Dumbarton Oaks, April 24th-April 26, 1952, March 1952 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, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 2Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Byz and Slavs 1952.04.24
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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...
Letter from A.M. Friend, Jr. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, August 3, 1949, August 3, 1949 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, A-Havey
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A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 3Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Friend 1949.08.03
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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...
Letter from A.M. Friend, Jr., Harvard University, The Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1703 Thirty-second Street, Washington 7, D.C. to the Honorable and Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, 1537 28th Street, Washington 7, D.C., March 15, 1952 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, A-Havey
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A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 4Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Friend 1952.03.15
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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...
Letter from A.M. Friend, Jr., Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University, Washington 7, D.C. to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, Dumbarton Oaks, June 14, 1952 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, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 5Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:Friend 1952.06.14
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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...
Line art of Byzantine apse by Paul A. Underwood, 1945-1959 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, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
A.M (Albert Mathias) Friend, Jr.
File — Box: E, Folder: 1, item: 6Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E1:undated line art apse byzantine
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Line art drawing of a Byzantine apse with initials P.A.U [Paul A. Underwood) in lower left corner.
L'Art Ancien (S.A. Zurich) and Sir Leigh Ashton, 1948-1959
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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, A-Havey
Sub-Group — Box: E, Folder: 21Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001
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The Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives is a collection of over 6278 individual items of textual materials, drawings, and photographs that document the creation and development of the Dumbarton Oaks Garden, Washington, D.C. between 1920-1979. Robert Bliss and Mildred Barnes Bliss purchased the 53 acre property in 1920 known as "The Oaks" and later as Dumbarton Oaks, and within a year they hired Beatrix Farrand, a landscape gardener, to design a garden for the property that combined French,...