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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, October 12, 1949

 
Accession number B:BF 1949.10.12
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Cool House
Date
1949
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter discusses the visit with Lewis L. Delafield and Ellis Russell at Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine. A report of their impressions of the Reef Point gardens and educational program by Lewis L. Delafield should be on Mildred Bliss' desk when she returns from London sailing the Queen Elizabeth. Beatrix Farrand reports she has not seen blueprints or plans (possibly for the Garden Center library), so she can not comment, and she has not been contacted by John Thacher to write an article for a Dumbarton Oaks bulletin.

Beatrix Farrand reports that one book on Nymphenbourg [sic] has been added to the Dumbarton Oaks library and has been looking for a book by Charles-Joseph de Ligne titled, Coup d'oeil sur Beloeil. She also mentions she is dismayed that Ruth Havey has not responded to Robert Patterson's letter.

Written on Beatrix Farrand's letterhead and hand signed "Trix."

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

visitors
Delafield, Lewis L.
Russell, Ellis
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Reef Point (cape)
Queen Elizabeth (ship)
London (inhabited place)
Rome (Italy)
travel
vacation
Canada
California
Château de Beloeil (Beloeil, Belgium)
books
Ligne, Charles Joseph, prince de, 1735-1814. Coup d’oeil sure Beloeil et sur une grande partie des jardins de l’Europe
Havey, Ruth, 1899-1980
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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