Box E
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Letter from Roger Hinks, 1914 Rittenhouse Square, Philadelphia to Mrs. Robert Woods Bliss, February 14, 1959 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, A-Havey
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Sub-Group:
Dumbarton Oaks, Garden, Appreciation Letters
File — Box: E, Folder: 4, item: 62Identifier: DDO-RB-GAR-001, E4:Hinks 1959.02.14
Scope and Contents:
Handwritten letter from Roger Hinks to Mildred Bliss tells her how much he enjoyed coming to tea with her the other day, and particularly how agreeable he found their table alone together after Mildred's charming guests had gone. He is still pondering on the question of porphyry and alabaster; and he still inclines to alabaster because of the half-hidden fractures the translucent surface it reveals. "But she is not made to be propped up on a cushion in a favourite chair for months at a time,...