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John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, June 25, 1941

 
Accession number D:JT 1941.06.25
Alternative title Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, June 25, 1941
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1941
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter responding to Beatrix Farrand's earlier letters of the 23rd (D:BF 1941.06.23 and D:BF 1941.06.23B), regarding her financial arrangements. John Thacher also answers her earlier questions regarding the budget, his address while he's away, the use of the gardens for schoolchildren, and work being done in the library at Dumbarton Oaks.

Typewritten copy of original letter; unsigned. Original letter not held in collection.

Includes typewritten note at the top for Alberta Carpenter, John Thacher's financial secretary, "Miss Carpenter: Don't send this before talking to me. J.S.T."

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Bar Harbor (Me.)
salaries
expense accounts
Financial statements
Carpenter, Alberta S.
vacations
budgets
maintenance
Camden (Me.)
travel
Washington (D.C.)
School children
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Sessions, Barbara
health
illness
construction (assembling)
architects
Davis, John
libraries (rooms)
sketches
building plans
Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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