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Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 17, 1947

 
Accession number B:AS 1947.04.17
Alternative title Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 17, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Orangery
Orchard
Cherry Hill
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter mentions Robert Patterson to share his visit to Dumbarton Oaks with Beatrix Farrand, and Anne Sweeney can travel to Reef Point to discuss the planting list after July 1, 1947. Anne Sweeney is returning the plant record notes after Mildred Bliss made comments along with a copy of the book list which includes books from Reef Point Garden Library, Harvard Landscape Library, Massachusetts Horticultural Library, and the United States Department of Agriculture Library.

Anne Sweeney reports the gardens will be closed for a week due to the Dumbarton Oaks Symposium [Byzantine Art and Scholarship] which will conclude with a luncheon and music in the Orangery on Saturday afternoon [April 26, 1947].

Arnoldia leaflets were given to Anne Sweeney presumably from Beatrix Farrand, and she comments on seeing Beatrix Farrand's guiding hand concerning the addition made to the Arnold Arboretum.

Copy of original typed letter, double sided and unsigned. Probably created by Anne Sweeney as she was working with Beatrix Farrand on the plant record notes (Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks) and the garden book list.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

gardens
plant lists
books
libraries (institutions)
flowers (plants)
trees
visitors
Harvard University
United States. Department of Agriculture
Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Library
Plants
notes
Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959. Plant book for Dumbarton Oaks.
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Santa Barbara (inhabited place)
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
bibliographies
Frances L. Loeb Library
Thacher, John
Carpenter, Alberta S.
catalog cards
cherry (plant)
crabapple (plant)
symposia (conferences)
Arnoldia
journals (periodicals)
Arnold Arboretum
Wyman, Donald, 1904-1993
travel
New York (N.Y.)
Stover, Isabelle M.
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.), DC
Accession number B:AS 1947.04.17
Alternative title Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 17, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Orangery
Orchard
Cherry Hill
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence