- Title
- Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher, March 21, 1947
- Alternate Title
- Letter from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher, March 21, 1947
- Sender
- Beatrix Farrand
- Recipient
- John Thacher
- Date Written
- 1947
- Garden Area
- Unassigned
- Description
Typewritten letter informs John Thacher of Beatrix Farrand's resignation as Consulting Landscape Gardener at Dumbarton Oaks due to the strain of conflicting personalities, complications, delays and details on the gardening side and the physical inability to walk the grounds. She asks for honorary or emeritus status status with the intention of standing behind Robert Patterson. Beatrix Farrand communicates the decision is difficult as the work done at Dumbarton Oaks was the "best of a fifty year practice." She makes a plea for Anne Sweeney as an important member of the garden side of Dumbarton Oaks.
Handwritten signature, perhaps not that of Beatrix Farrand, but her secretary, Isabelle M. Stover, on her behalf.
Title created by cataloger.
- Accession No.
- D:BF 1947.03.21
- Related Items
- Work Types
- correspondence
- Subjects
- letters (correspondence)
- Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
- retirement
- resignation
- Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
- consultants
- consulting
- Dumbarton Oaks
- resignation letters
- notes
- illness
- health
- travel
- Harvard University
- Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
- Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
- Fatigue
- Honor
- Sweeney, Anne
- salaries
- work
- Ability. Influence of age on
- Age and employment
- Collection
- Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
- Repository
- Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
- Location
- Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
- Index Terms
- Farrand, Beatrix → retirement of → BF letter to JT on
- planting record book (Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks) → BF on finishing of
- Sweeney, Anne → future at DO for → BF to JT on importance of