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Louise Crowninshield to Mildred Bliss, February 16, 1956

 
Accession number F13:Crowninshield 1956.02.16
Sender
Recipient
Garden Area
Unassigned
Date
1956
Work types
correspondence

Description

Correspondence sent by Louise du Pont Crowninshield to Mildred Bliss discussing the future of Reef Point Gardens. Included with letter are two additional letters sent to Louise du Pont Crowninshield from Etheldreda S. Reid, the president of the Garden Club of American in 1956 also discussing her thoughts on saving Reef Point Gardens after a conversation with Mrs. Lincoln Cromwell.

These letters may have been included with a letter Mrs. Bliss sent to Robert Patterson [this letter is not in the Garden Archives] and then returned with a letter by Robert Patterson to Mildred Bliss, F13:RH 1956.03.01.

Correspondence received at Dumbarton Oaks, February 21, 1956.

Title created by cataloger.

Subjects

Reef Point Gardens (Bar Harbor, Me.)
funding
fund raising
gardens (open spaces)
deaths
Garden Club of America
Farrand, Beatrix (1872-1959)
libraries (rooms)
visitors
Patterson, Robert W. (1905-1988)
letters (correspondence)
 

Collection

Dumbarton Oaks Garden Archives
 

Repository

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