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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, February 20, 1947

 
Accession number B:BF 1947.02.20
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, February 20, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter reports urgent business of a lot next to the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is available for purchase and asks Mildred Bliss for approval to use the Director's House funds. Beatrix Farrand expresses favorable impressions have been made by Reid Moran, the new Assistant Director and by Sellar Bullard, the President of the Board of Trustees, Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

Copies of this letter were also sent to Sellar Bullard and Louis Lancaster, Board Trustees of the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.

On Santa Barbara Botanic Garden, Santa Barbara, California letterhead.

Handwritten signature in ink [possibly not in Beatrix Farrand's hand, but on her behalf by her secretary].

Marked as received, [February] 22 [1947].

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

lots (land)
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
purchasing
Lancaster, Louis
funding
cost
houses
parking (area)
administrators
Moran, Reid
Van Rensselaer, Maunsell, 1897-
administrative reports
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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