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Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, April 8, 1948

 
Accession number B:IMS 1948.04.08
Alternative title Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, April 8, 1948
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date
1948

Description

Typewritten letter mentions the Massachusetts Horticultural Society book list with marks by Isabelle M. Stover in blue pencil showing those Beatrix Farrand thinks Dumbarton Oaks should have for the library. She especially notes: "The Repton No. 434; No. 181 Gerarde and 350 Markham on Clematis."

On Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead with handwritten signature of Isabelle M. Stover in ink.

On typewritten correction noted.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Library
books
bibliographies
Dumbarton Oaks
libraries (institutions)
Gerard, John, 1545-1612. Herball
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
Markham, Ernest, -1937. Clematis
librarians
Manks, Dorothy St. John, 1896-
Boston (Mass.)
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
weather
letters (correspondence)
Repton, Humphry, 1752-1818. Observations on the theory and practice of landscape gardening
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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