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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, November 23, 1946

 
Accession number B:BF 1946.11.23
Alternative title Letter and report from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, November 23, 1946
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1946
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter sending a send version of a report dated November 22, 1946 regarding the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden addressing a future plan for the garden. Beatrix Farrand asks Mildred Bliss to review it for mistakes, omissions, and errors.

Written at head of report in pencil: "Re: Santa Barbara Botanic Garden." Annotations at head of report and in margins probably by Mildred Bliss'.

On Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California official letterhead.

Typewritten by Katharine Miller on behalf of Beatrix Farrand.

Letter marked as received: [November] 25 [1946].

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

revising
administrative reports
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
topography (attribute)
plan (formal concept)
designs (concepts)
walkways
gardens (open spaces)
roads
parking (area)
visitors
dwellings
meadows
Arnold Arboretum
Olmstead, Frederick Law, 1822-1903
surveys (documents)
land surveys
Plants
sketches
plans (orthographic projections)
management
maintenance
letters (correspondence)
walks
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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