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Alden Hopkins to Helen Van Pelt Wilson, March 24, 1959

 
Accession number F1:Hopkins 1959.03.24
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Ellipse
Date
1959
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter discusses when they could meet at Dumbarton Oaks to discuss the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens for an article she was writing for Flower Grower magazine. He would be in town for a talk he was giving at the Washington Club on April 7, 1959 and hopes it is possible to introduce her to Mildred Bliss. Alden Hopkins mentions the completion of the first stage of the re-design of the Ellipse garden area.

Copies of letters sent to Mildred Bliss and John Thacher.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
gardens (open spaces)
Colonial Williamsburg (Williamsburg, Va)
symposia (conferences)
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
essay
visitors
Flower grower, the home garden magazine
Washington Club (Washington, D.C.)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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