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Beatrix Farrand to Paul J. Sachs, June 25, 1941

 
Accession number D:BF 1941.06.25
Alternative title Typewritten letter from Beatrix Farrand to Paul J. Sachs, June 25, 1941
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1941
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter in which Beatrix Farrand accepts an invitation to lecture at Harvard University under the Fogg Museum and the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture. She suggests to Paul Sachs that one lecture could be on Elizabethan Gardens and another on "plantings at various Universities with regard to their part in the general education of students in proportion and fitness." She also offers a possible alternate lecture on "the Art of the Landscape Gardener."

Typewritten letter on Beatrix Farrand's San Marino, California letterhead. Address crossed out and "Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine" typed beside it. Signed in black ink.

Includes penciled note at top, "[unknown abbreviated word] Farrand" and below, "Mary, Ask Prof. Pond the title of lecture we agreed on - then put on my desk [signed] p." "Prof. Pond" is Bremer Whidden Pond, the department head of the Harvard School of Landscape Architecture. (http://tclf.org/pioneer/bremer-pond)

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Bar Harbor (Me.)
Fogg Art Museum
Harvard University
Thacher, John
lectures
Landscape architecture
Architecture, Elizabethan
Art, Elizabethan
students
plates (illustrations)
books
Garden tools
Garden ornament and furniture
designs (concepts)
planting
Universities and colleges
health
landscape gardening
Pond, Bremer W. (Bremer Whidden), 1884-
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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