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Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, April 26, 1948

 
Accession number B:IMS 1948.04.26
Alternative title Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, April 26, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter acknowledges receipt of Anne Sweeney's letter of April 14, 1948. Isabelle M. Stover informs her that the Gerarde's Herball is sold and the Humphry Repton book, Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening, is not what Beatrix Farrand advises buying. Isabelle M. Stover directs Anne Sweeney to have Dorothy St. John Manks send the bill for books purchased to Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine. She comments that Spring has finally arrived, but still cold.

Isabelle M. Stover wrote the letter, but also communicated information about a sold book on behalf of Beatrix Farrand.

On Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead.

Handwritten signature in ink.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

books
acquisitions
Gerard, John, 1545-1612. Herball
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818. Observations on the theory and practice of land=scape gardening
Manks, Dorothy St. John, 1896-
billing
Dumbarton Oaks
libraries (institutions)
spring (season)
cold
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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