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Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 8, 1947

 
Accession number B:AS 1947.04.08B
Alternative title Letter from Anne Sweeney to Beatrix Farrand, April 8, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter informs Beatrix Farrand the rare book list and negatives from Mrs. Bland are being returned to Isabelle Stover and announces to her that Spring tours for the Dumbarton Oaks Gardens had begun with blooming flowers showing beautiful color. Anne Sweeney relates that John Thacher wanted her to wait to send the plant catalog cards to Beatrix Farrand as she would be traveling; It is better she discuss this with Robert Patterson then send it to Beatrix Farrand.

Copy of original, unsigned. Probably created by Anne Sweeney as she was working on the plant catalog cards.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

gardens
visitors
Garden tours
flowers (plants)
wisteria
trees
plant lists
books
rare books
bibliographies
lists (document genres)
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
Thacher, John
Stover, Isabelle M.
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Harvard University
Frances L. Loeb Library
Boston (Mass.)
catalog cards
Plants
United States. Department of Agriculture. Library
libraries (institutions)
Magnolia (genus)
Wisteria
crabapple (plant)
leaflets (printed works)
Walter, Clementine
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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