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Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher, August 7, 1941

 
Accession number D:BF 1941.08.07
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to John Thacher, August 7, 1941
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1941
Work types
receipts (financial records)
expense accounts
correspondence

Description

Letter in reply to John Thacher's letter of August 4 (D:JT 1941.08.04), confirming financial details regarding her Agent account and Anne Sweeney's salary. Beatrix Farrand also mentions the ill health of her husband, Max Farrand, which would delay a planned visit from Anne Sweeney to Bar Harbor, Maine. Includes receipt for a check she received and a letter excerpt from Mildred Bliss discussing her husband, Robert Bliss, and his progression to good health.

Typewritten letter on Beatrix Farrand's San Marino, California letterhead. Address crossed out and "Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine" typed beside it. Signature in black ink. "file" penciled in top, right hand corner.

Receipt for a $100 check on half sheet of paper; signed in black ink by Beatrix Farrand.

Typewritten excerpt from a letter received by Beatrix Farrand from Mildred Bliss, dated August 4, 1941 (B:MB 1941.08.04). "file" penciled in top, right hand corner.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Camden (Me.)
checks (bank checks)
receipts (financial records)
Financial statements
Sweeney, Anne
Railroad travel
Travel costs
New York (N.Y.)
Bar Harbor (Me.)
bulbs (plants)
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
salaries
Bryce, James
budgets
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
health
illness
hospitals (institutions, health facility)
travel
winter
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
Harvard University
Riggs National Bank
Washington (D.C.)
surgery
physicians
nurses
Interns (Medicine)
Anesthesia
Oxygen
Lungs
Injections, Intravenous
Injections, Saline
Glucose
Vitamin therapy
Heart
Gallbladder Diseases
Liver
Husbands
Hydrotherapy
Santa Barbara (Calif.)
Luncheons
Davis, John
Honeysuckles
Cypress
Tree trunks
flower gardens
roses
Lucking, Philip
vacations
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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