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Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, February 25, 1946

 
Accession number B:IMS 1946.02.25
Alternative title Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, February 25, 1946
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1946
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter discussing the success in locating a book to purchase that Anne Sweeney requested, Manual of the Grasses of the United States by A.S. Hitchcock; Isabelle Stover is having it sent directly from Henry G. Fiedler, bookseller, in New York to Anne Sweeney at Dumbarton Oaks. The winter has been snowy in Maine. Isabelle Stover asks Anne Sweeney where she might find the book list Anne Sweeney gave to Beatrix Farrand last summer [1945].

Written on Beatrix Farrand's, Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead.

Handwritten signature in ink.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

books
bibliographies
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
Hitchcock, A.S. (Albert Spear), 1865-1935. Manual of the grasses of the United States
winter
Maine
snow (precipitation)
letters (correspondence)
Henry G. Fiedler (Firm)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

Dumbarton Oaks Research Library, Rare Book Collection
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington (D.C.)
Accession number B:IMS 1946.02.25
Alternative title Letter from Isabelle Stover to Anne Sweeney, February 25, 1946
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1946
Work types
correspondence