MB 1950.07.25.pdf

Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand July 25, 1950

Accession number	B:MB 1950.07.25
Sender	Mildred Barnes Bliss
Recipient	Beatrix Farrand
Garden Area	Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date	1950
Work types	correspondence

Subjects

Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962

weather

Washington (D.C.)

nurses

Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital

health

hospitals (institutions, health facility)

friendship

Chancellor, Charlotte

Van Rensselaer, Maunsell, 1897-

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

resignation letters

Succulent plants

Cupressus (genus)

trees

postcards

Casa Dorinda

drawings (visual works)

libraries (institutions)

Dumbarton Oaks

deaths

Whittemore, Thomas, 1871-1950

Thacher, John

Williams, Bradford

letters (correspondence)

gifts

cataloging

books

rare books

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection

Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.),

Accession number	B:MB 1950.07.25
Sender	Mildred Barnes Bliss
Recipient	Beatrix Farrand
Garden Area	Garden Library and Ribbon Walk
Date	1950
Work types	correspondence

Index Terms

Chancellor, Charlotte, health much improved

Bullard, Sellar → Santa Barbara Botanic Garden and → MB on Van Rensselaer's resignation and

Van Rensselaer, Maunsell → as SBBG director → resignation of

Casa Dorinda → cypress → MB on absence of

Guadalupe cypress, at Casa Dorinda → MB on absence of

cypress, Guadalupe, at Casa Dorinda → MB on absence of

Beatrix Farrand, Agent → JT asks for balance of, to close → as sensible, MB on

Garden Library (Garden Center) → MB on her preference for name of

Harvard University → DO Garden Library and → negotiations over

Reef Point (Gardens) → MB's visit in 1950 to → not possible

Whittemore, Thomas → death of

Founder's Room → MB trying to systematize matters in → as ongoing

Williams, Bradford → DO landscape plans and drawings and → MB gratitude for BF vision on

Thacher, John S. → BF's landscape plans and drawings of DO and → MB gratitude for BF vision on

landscape plans and drawings for DO (BF's) → in Reef Point attic → correspondence including with transfer to DO of

Farrand, Beatrix → DO landscape plans and drawings as gift to DO by → correspondence including with transfer to DO of

Williams, Bradford → DO landscape plans and drawings and → cataloguing of, MB will take up in the autumn

Ventenat, É. P. → MB received two volume set on approval of

students → in Landscape Architecture → MB on usefulness of DO files to

Garden Library (Garden Center) → Harvard's legal relationship with → negotiations over

Bliss, Mildred → BF's landscape plans and drawings of DO and → gratitude for including correspondence in transfer to DO of

Bliss, Robert → illness of → as perfect patient

Sweeney, Anne → BF's landscape plans, drawings, and papers → organizing/cataloguing of

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