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John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, April 17, 1947

 
Accession number D:JT 1947.04.17
Alternative title Letter from John Thacher to Beatrix Farrand, April 17, 1947
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Service Court
Date
1947
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter communicates the need to know what the Beatrix Farrand honorarium account and Beatrix Farrand, Agent account are due, so that the books can be closed and new accounts opened for Robert Patterson. John Thacher asks for Isabelle Stover's continued secretarial services for Robert Patterson if necessary, and he reports Robert Patterson's visit to Dumbarton Oaks was extremely satisfactory. The stone tiger is also being returned to Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine.

Copy of original letter, unsigned. Probably created by John Thacher as he paid the Beatrix Farrand expense accounts.

Perhaps a draft letter as a revised letter with identical topics was written the following day, April 18, 1947 (D:JT 1947.04.18) and received by Beatrix Farrand (D:BF 1947.04.21).

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

expense accounts
fees (compensation)
Sweeney, Anne
travel
Carpenter, Alberta S.
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
memorandums
painting (coating)
greenhouses
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
funding
secretaries (clerical workers)
Stover, Isabelle M.
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
sculpture (visual work)
tiger in art
stone (worked rock)
friendship
shipping
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
autumn
bulbs (plants)
Seeds
billing
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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