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Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, July 9, 1947

 
Accession number B:BF 1947.07.09
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, July 9, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter thanks Anne Sweeney for her letter dated June 26, 2015. Beatrix Farrand proposes dates for a visit to Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine and follow on travel to Boston. Beatrix Farrand is sending a check for $100 for travel expenses. She reports she has not been feeling well, so has enlisted Marion Spaulding, who is working on the planting record book, Mrs. Amy Garland, Robert Patterson to assist her as needed.

On Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead with handwritten signature in ink.

Watermark on bottom edge: "Control, Valley Paper Co, Rag Content, U.S.A."

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

travel
Railroad travel
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Boston (Mass.)
Arnold Arboretum
New York (N.Y.)
Strout, Alice W.
checks (bank checks)
expenses
Garland, Amy Magdalene
Spaulding, Marion I.
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959. Plant book for Dumbarton Oaks.
lodging houses
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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