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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, June 1, 1948

 
Accession number B:BF 1948.06.01
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, June 1, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter relays satisfaction on a recent telephone conversation that tied up loose ends. Beatrix Farrand wants to follow Mildred Bliss's wishes regarding the Dumbarton Oaks Garden Center. She thanks Mildred Bliss for the plan recently sent to her which has been traced. She suggests Mildred Bliss visit Reef Point in autumn. Beatrix Farrand sends the Arnold Arboretum letter asking her and Robert Woods Bliss to become patrons as funds are badly needed.

On Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead with handwritten signature.

Marked as received, [June] 3, [1948].

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Telephone
communication (function)
Dumbarton Oaks
libraries (institutions)
plans (orthographic projections)
tracings (drawings)
Serbia
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
summer (season)
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
travel
autumn
Arnold Arboretum
donations
funding
friends (philanthropists)
Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
Accession number B:BF 1948.06.01
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, June 1, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948
Work types
correspondence