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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, November 3, 1944

 
Accession number B:BF 1944.11.03
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Fellows’ Quarters and Yard
Unassigned
Date
1944
Work types
correspondence

Description

Discusses Max Farrand's health and continued medical treatments in Boston; Beatrix Farrand apologizes for being unable to visit Dumbarton Oaks to due health issues and not seeing how they will be able to do so before the trip to California in early December and offering thanks for approving fundraising letter for the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

Mentions Beatrix Farrand's eagerness to see sketches for additions to the Fellows' House.

Typewritten letter on Beatrix Farrand's letterhead.

Letter dictated by Beatrix Farrand in Boston, handwritten signature of "Beatrix Stover" in black ink by Isabelle M. Stover, and sent November 6, 1944.

Letter received at Dumbarton Oaks, November 8, 1944.

Carbon copy included in Collection.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Dumbarton Oaks
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
health
illness
travel
California
Chicago (Ill.)
hands (animal or human components)
physicians
therapeutics
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
Van Rensselaer, Maunsell, 1897-
sketches
funding
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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