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Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, June 19, 1944

Accession number	B:BF 1944.06.19
Alternative title	Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, June 19, 1944
Sender	Beatrix Farrand
Recipient	Anne Sweeney
Garden Area	Arbor Terrace Museum Courtyard Green Garden Orangery Herb Garden Star Garden Catalogue House Terrior Column and Enclosure
Date	1944
Work types	correspondence

Subjects

gardens

guides (people)

Garden tours

visitors

photographs

arbors

wisteria

quotations (texts)

inscriptions

translations (documents)

vase-shaped

Rococo

Versailles, Château de (palace)

rare books

books

libraries (institutions)

postcards

plates (illustrations)

museums (institutions)

illness

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)

Accession number	B:BF 1944.06.19
Alternative title	Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, June 19, 1944
Sender	Beatrix Farrand
Recipient	Anne Sweeney
Garden Area	Arbor Terrace Museum Courtyard Green Garden Orangery Herb Garden Star Garden Catalogue House Terrior Column and Enclosure
Date	1944
Work types	correspondence

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Garden Guide Service or Tours → report to JT and BF on garden visitors → BF commending Sweeney on

House at DO → photographs of, in old condition? → BF will see if she has any

Wisteria Arbor → fountain → inscription on, BF correction of text

inscriptions → planting record book → translations needed for, Sweeney to make list of

Star Garden → inscription on, from Chaucer

Chaucer inscription → in Star Garden

Terrior Column → inspiration for placing in DO garden of

Aesop's Fables → characters in uprights of iron swing from

Terrior Column → swing → Aesop's Fables and uprights for

Catalogue House → quotation on → BF to ask MB for source of

postcards, picture → manufacturer sought for

Stewart Brothers, photographers → as source for printing DO postcards for sale

Clark, Ethel Burnet → crossed wires between Sweeney and, BF to take up question of

budget for landscape work at DO → during World War II for 1944-45 → reference books for Garden Guide and

Orangery → plates on display in, visitor interest in

Garden Guide Service or Tours → schedule for → BF on issues involved in discontinuing on Sundays

books, reference → inexpensive, Harvard to buy

Thacher, John S. → Navy Department duties of → attention to DO matters and

Museum Cortile → plant lists for → BF gratitude for Sweeney's compilation of

plates → Sweeney's alphabetized list of

tennis court → walls → plant list for inside of?

Kearney, Mrs. → illness of, Sweeney doing cooking and house management for

Farrand, Beatrix → aging of → on decreased stamina, June 1944 DO visit and

Dumbarton Oaks → under Harvard management → crossed wires at, BF to take up question of

inscriptions → planting record book → in Star Garden, from Chaucer

visitors to DO gardens → report to JT and BF on → BF commending Sweeney on

Iron swing → Aesop's Fables' characters in uprights of

benches and seats → Terrior Column swing → Aesop's Fables and uprights for

walls → tennis court → plant list for inside of

Sweeney, Anne → BF on point of view of work at DO by

Sweeney, Anne → vacation for → timing of

planting record book (Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks) → inscriptions for → in Star Garden

Garden Club of America → Bulletin → BF on getting a copy of

planting record book (Beatrix Farrand's Plant Book for Dumbarton Oaks) → inscriptions for → translations needed for, Sweeney to make list of

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