Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, June 28, 1948
Accession number | B:IMS 1948.06.28 |
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Alternative title | Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, June 28, 1948 with enclosed book order from Beatrix Farrand to Dulau's Department, B.H. Blackwell, Ltd., June 28, 1948 |
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Garden Area |
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
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Date |
1948
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Work types |
correspondence
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Description
Typewritten letter discusses book purchases for Dumbarton Oaks and the Garden Library. Isabelle M. Stover is sorry the Monograph of azaleas by Ernest Wilson and Alfred Rehder is a duplicate purchase. She mentions more books were ordered from Dulau's Department, B.H. Blackwell, Ltd. and encloses book order. Beatrix Farrand may want to keep the book, Essay on the picturesque, as compared to the sublime and the beautiful by Uvedale Price for the Reef Point Garden library.
In handwritten postscript, Isabelle M. Stover wants to make sure the Horticultural Colour Chart [The Wilson color chart] by Robert Francis Wilson has not already been purchased before ordering for Dumbarton Oaks.
Explains the book, The works of verse and prose by William Shenstone, was meant for Dumbarton Oaks and Beatrix Farrand will likely explain when Anne Sweeney travels to Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine.
First page: On Beatrix Farrand's, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead with handwritten signature and postscript in ink by Isabelle M. Stover.
Second page: Copy of original order with typewritten signature: Beatrix Farrand.
Date of letter and book order identical.
In left margin: "Shenstone" in pencil by unknown hand.
Title created by cataloger.
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Accession number | B:IMS 1948.06.28 |
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Alternative title | Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, June 28, 1948 with enclosed book order from Beatrix Farrand to Dulau's Department, B.H. Blackwell, Ltd., June 28, 1948 |
Sender | |
Recipient | |
Garden Area |
Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
|
Date |
1948
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Work types |
correspondence
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