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Beatrix Farrand to Anne Sweeney, January 2, 1946

 
Accession number B:BF 1946.01.02
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
South Side of House
Herbaceous Border
Orangery
Catalogue House
Entrance Drive
Rose Garden
East Lawn
Lovers’ Lane Pool
Date
1946
Work types
correspondence

Description

Letter discusses permission to have 5000 picture postcards similar to those for Reef Point Gardens, made for each of the following at Dumbarton Oaks: the view of the front door from the Southeast lawn, the Rose Garden, the Herbaceous Garden or Border, and the Lovers' Lane Pool. Beatrix Farrand also asks Anne Sweeney for a report on various questions she has about Dumbarton Oaks.

Beatrix shares that she has a print fund for the Catalogue House with funding from Mildred Bliss and a balance in the Harvard Book Fund that can be used if Anne Sweeney wants to purchase prints.

Comments that Mr. [Philip] "Lucking's [from Casa Dorinda] death was just what one would have want for oneself." He died of a heart attack at Kalman's Nursery.

Typewritten on Beatrix Farrand's Valley Club of Monecito letterhead and hand signed by her.

Mentions Clementine Walter can sympathize with Anne Sweeney with regard to tooth problems.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

picture postcards
postcards
negatives (photographic)
funding
payment
books
Stover, Isabelle M.
Walter, Clementine
Bryce, James
Bliss, Mildred, 1879-1969
rest rooms
walkways
bricks
desks
Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery
Thacher, John
slides (photographs)
deaths
Dumbarton Oaks
Casa Dorinda
Lucking, Philip
letters (correspondence)
Stewart Bros. Photographers, 1924-
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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