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Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, April 30, 1948

 
Accession number B:AS 1948.04.30B
Alternative title Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, April 30, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter informs Isabelle M. Stover that Anne Sweeney has not heard back from Dorothy St. John Manks on books offered for sale at the Massachusetts Horticultural Society Library. Anne Sweeney acknowledges that the John Gerard, Herball once available has been sold and the Humphry Repton title is not desirable. She mentions that all but one book title on Beatrix Farrand's list included in a recent letter is already in the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Library.

Copy of original letter, unsigned.

Probably created by Anne Sweeney based on related letters discussing titles on a book list, the John Gerard, Herball and Humphry Repton title, Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

books
libraries (institutions)
lists (document genres)
titles (documents)
Gerard, John, 1545-1612. Herball
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818. Observations on the theory and practice of land=scape gardening
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
Manks, Dorothy St. John, 1896-
purchasing
acquisitions
reference books
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
Accession number B:AS 1948.04.30B
Alternative title Letter from Anne Sweeney to Isabelle Stover, April 30, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948
Work types
correspondence