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Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, July 3, 1944

 
Accession number B:BF 1944.07.03
Alternative title Letter from Beatrix Farrand to Mildred Bliss, July 3, 1944
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Catalogue House
Orangery
Date
1944
Work types
correspondence

Description

Typewritten letter offers Walter A. Jessup as a consideration for the Foerster Committee and mentions Beatrix Farrand will pick out a dozen or more Dumbarton Oaks Garden photographs as possibilities for postcards. Beatrix Farrand reminds Mildred Bliss to send $25 for Anne Sweeney for new and replacement prints for the Catalogue House and Orangery.

On Beatrix Farrand's Reef Point, Bar Harbor, Maine letterhead with handwritten signature.

Marked as received [July] 5, [1944].

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

photographs
prints (visual works)
postcards
orangeries
committees
Dumbarton Oaks
Dumbarton Oaks Gardens (Washington, D.C.)
Thacher, John
Sweeney, Anne
Jessup, Walter A. (Walter Albert), 1877-1944
Committees
University of Iowa
Carnegie Corporation of New York
picture postcards
Bliss, Robert Woods, 1875-1962
travel
Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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