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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, October 6, 1937

 
Accession number B:BF 1937.10.06
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Swimming Pool and Loggia
Dumbarton Oaks Park
Rose Garden
Terrace E
Service Court
Date
1937
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter discussing blooming flowers, rebuilding and replanting beds, and clearing trees near the Clifton wall. Gray cut his garden staff and is considering showing blooms at the Baltimore Flower Show.

Unsigned, probably written by Beatrix Farrand. Notation on last page, bottom left, reads "BF:KCE."

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

terraces (landscaped-site elements)
plants
trees
flowers (plants)
roses
azaleas
Nymphaea (genus)
greenhouses
beds (site elements)
graves
Baltimore (inhabited place)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)