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Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand, September 16, 1946

 
Accession number B:MB 1946.09.16
Alternative title Letter from Mildred Bliss to Beatrix Farrand, September 16, 1946
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1946
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter discusses the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden Board voted to make Beatrix Farrand, Consultant to the Botanic Garden, after receiving Beatrix Farrand's letter; requests that Robert Patterson notify Mildred Bliss when he is to visit Dumbarton Oaks; and asks for Beatrix Farrand's letter of Dumbarton Oaks Gardens problems be sent to Santa Barbara. Enclosed with letter was a news clipping that is no longer with letter.

Beatrix Farrand had sent to Mildred Bliss her Reef Point Bulletin which she felt was "good, so wisely, simply and thoroughly conceived."

Stamped in upper right corner: "The Secretary's Den, Public Steno - Notary, 19B E. Canon Perdido, PH. 24500 - RES. 24448." Below stamp in red colored pencil: air [circled].

Typewritten signature.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

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Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
Farrand, Max, 1869-1945
Bullard, Sellar, 1886-1964
Kellam, Frederick Benjamin, 1865-1953
Santa Barbara Botanic Garden
consultants
consulting
letters (correspondence)
Fatigue
Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
Thacher, John
New York (N.Y.)
autumn
Washington (D.C.)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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