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Caroline Phillips to Mildred Bliss, July 9, 1933

 
Accession number B:CP 1933.07.09
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1933

Description

Handwritten letter expressing enjoyment of the gardens and suggesting a number of lines from Dante's Earthly Paradise at the end of the Purgatorio, to potentially be used as inscriptions.

Last two pages contain excerpts from Dante in English and Latin.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

translations (documents)
inscriptions
flowers (plants)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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