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John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, October 30, 1941

 
Accession number D:JT 1941.10.30
Alternative title Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, October 30, 1941
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Director’s House and Terrace
Museum Courtyard
Green Garden
32nd Street
Date
1941
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter answering Beatrix Farrand's letters of October 2 (D:BF 1941.10.02) and October 17 (D:BF 1941.10.17), regarding the start of the Dumbarton Oaks garden tours led by Anne Sweeney, postponing Beatrix Farrand's Harvard University  lecture due to her husband's illness, and her November trip to Dumbarton Oaks, including the issues they should discuss when she comes.

Typewritten copy of original letter, unsigned.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

telegrams
Garden tours
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
gates
visitors
School children
School field trips
Sweeney, Anne
offices (work spaces)
orangeries
lavatories (rooms)
lectures
Harvard University
landscape architecture
spring (season)
Dumbarton Oaks
consulting
Thanksgiving Day
Boston (Mass.)
travel
inscriptions
walls
exhibitions
Coles, G. Frederick
oak
White oak
trees
planting
houses
paths
courtyards
Root, Irving C.
Telephone
Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
Letter writing
Chrysanthemum (genus)
California
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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