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Pierpont Morgan Library. Correspondence between Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) and J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943).

Title: Correspondence between Beatrix Jones Farrand (1872-1959) and J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943). 1982.

This correspondence concerns the landscaping work which Mrs. Farrand did for the gardens around the Morgan houses and library ... Mrs. Farrand began work on these premises in 1913 ... and her work was carried on until 1943.

ArchivalResource: v. ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/8530435 View

Hewitt, Mattie Edwards, d. 1956. Wingwood House photographs, circa 1930.

Title: Wingwood House photographs, circa 1930.

Fifty-three black and white photographs (24.5 x 20 cm.) of Wingwood House in Bar Harbor, Me.

ArchivalResource: 53 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/314773797 View

Smith, David Nichol, 1875-1962. [Letter] 1937 Feb. 9, Athenaeum, 551 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. [to] Miss Farrand / D. Nichol Smith.

Title: [Letter] 1937 Feb. 9, Athenaeum, 551 South Hill Avenue, Pasadena, Calif. [to] Miss Farrand / D. Nichol Smith.

Smith writes to present Farrand with a copy of Thomas Percy's Ancient songs, chiefly on Morrish subjects, to which Smith had written the preface. The book, originally to have been published in 1775, was not published until 1932. He discusses why it took so long to produce.

ArchivalResource: [2] p. ; 21 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/433551121 View

Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive)

Title: Edith Wharton collection 1868-1981(inclusive)

The Edith WhartonCollection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personalpapers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, aswell as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, PercyLubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and LouisAuchincloss.

ArchivalResource: Total Boxes: 68; Linear Feet: 38.75

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/beinecke.wharton View

Savage, Charles K. (Charles Kenneth), 1903-1979,. Oral history interview, [197-] [sound recording].

Title: Oral history interview, [197-] [sound recording].

Interview, with Savage, relating to his involvement with the creation of the gardens at Asticou near Northeast Harbor, Me.: Asticou Azalea Garden and Thuya Garden.

ArchivalResource: 1 audiotape.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/70971416 View

Vaughan, Benjamin, 1751-1835. Papers, 1746-1900

Title: Benjamin Vaughan Papers 1746-1900

Letters (including some transcripts and photostats) from and to Vaughan from many American and British correspondents, including: Also personal correspondence and business papers of Benjamin, Charles, Petty, Samuel Sr., Samuel Jr., William, William Oliver, and Sarah Vaughan (2 boxes); lectures, mostly in shorthand (3 vols.); a large number of notes and memoranda on a wide variety of topics, such as agriculture, architecture, astronomy, diplomacy, diseases, dueling, electricity, hieroglyphs, internal improvements, medicine, meteorology, land, manufactures, politics, punctuation, religion, silk-manufacturing, stock-breeding, taxation, Unitarianism, Benjamin Franklin, John Locke, Napoleon I, Joseph Priestley, Bowdoin College, town of Hallowell, Maine; notes on the peace negotiations, 1782-1783; miscellaneous legal papers; genealogy of the Abbott-Vaughan families. For a personal account of the collection, see Mrs. Mary Vaughan Marvin, "The Benjamin Vaughan Papers," APS 95 (1951): 246-249. Proceedings

ArchivalResource: 13.25 Linear feet

http://www.amphilsoc.org/mole/view?docId=ead/Mss.B.V46p-ead.xml View

Davies, Godfrey, 1892-1957. Papers of Godfrey Davies, 1913-1960.

Title: Papers of Godfrey Davies, 1913-1960.

Collection of correspondence, research notes and other professional papers of Godfrey Davies. The correspondence includes carbon copies of letters from Davies and original letters to him. The bulk of the correspondence date from 1931. Correspondents include Sir George Norman Clark, Beatrix Cadwalader Jones Farrand, Max Farrand, Sir Charles Harding Firth, William Haller, Paul Hoswell Hardacre, John Robert Moore, William Bennett Munro, Sir Frederick Maurice Powicke, Bernadotte Everly Schmitt, George Wiley Sherburn, Kenneth Sisam, Frank Percy Wilson, Louis Booker Wright, and others. Research notes, written on 4x6 index cards, chiefly relate to Davies' studies of seventeenth century British history, with additional notes on military and diplomatic history of Great Britain in 18th and 19th centuries. The research papers include Davies' published and unpublished works, notes, and other materials that document his scholarly pursuits and his association with the Pembroke College, the University of Chicago, Huntington Library, California Institute of Technology, and the University of California at Los Angeles. Also included are lectures, essays, fragments, notes, correspondence and other papers of Sir Charles Harding Firth, which Davies accumulated in 1914-1928 while working as Firth's secretary and collaborating with him on several projects.

ArchivalResource: Approx. 4500 pieces.128 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/228732704 View

Dumbarton Oaks. Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive).

Title: Garden Library collection, ca. 1500-1900 (inclusive).

Holdings of the Garden Library pertain to the history of landscape architecture, garden design and ornament; to the history of horticulture, botanical illustration, and plant importation; and to early botanical science. Types of material include bound volumes and individual drawings and paintings, primarily by English and European artists from the 16th to 19th centuries; photographs, slides, and microfiches; and drawings from the office of Beatrix Farrand (landscape architect for Dumbarton Oaks) of Dumbarton Oaks gardens. There are also holograph letter and music manuscript collections, assembled by Mildred Barnes Bliss; as well as departmental records and correspondence between Bliss and Farrand. Materials are in various languages, including French, Latin, and English.

ArchivalResource: ca. 32 linear ft. and ca. 900 drawings.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122357510 View

Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959. Beatrix Jones Farrand collection, 1866-1959.

Title: Beatrix Jones Farrand collection, 1866-1959.

Contains material relating to Farrand's personal life, professional career, and the Reef Point Library. Personal papers consist of correspondence, diaries, material from her travels, family records, and photographs. Also includes office correspondence, project files, drawings, photographs, and watercolors as well as lecture notes and glass lantern slides Farrand used in her talks on landscape architecture. Reef Point Library records consist of photographs, prints, and postcards that Farrand collected on her trips throughout Europe and the United States as well as documentation of the library's administration. Books from the Reef Point Library are located in the Environmental Design Library.

ArchivalResource: 16 cartons, 23 boxes, 1 half box, 8 flat boxes, 6 card file boxes, 20 flat file drawers.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80465563 View

Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection, 1701-2007, 1701-1987

Title: Yale Miscellaneous Manuscripts collection 1701-2007 1701-1987

An artificial collection of correspondence, writings, diaries, and memorabilia relating to Yale University, its officials and employees, faculty, students, and related topics.

ArchivalResource: 32.5 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/mssa.ms.1258 View

Delano, William Adams, 1874-1960. William Adams Delano papers, 1902-1960 (inclusive), 1939-1960 (bulk).

Title: William Adams Delano papers, 1902-1960 (inclusive), 1939-1960 (bulk).

The papers consist almost entirely of social and professional correspondence. They also include an unpublished autobiography, The Reminiscences of William Adams Delano; printed matter; and a drawing made for the 46th anniversary of The Record.

ArchivalResource: 6.5 linear ft. (16 boxes, 1 folio)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153425 View

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Papers, 1836-1975.

Title: Papers, 1836-1975.

Consists of the papers of Edith Newbold Jones Wharton, files relating to her death and her estate, materials gathered by the executor of her French will, Elisina Tyler, for a planned biography of Wharton, and additional materials from Tyler's son William Royall Tyler who took over as executor of the Wharton estate.

ArchivalResource: ca. 1200 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41283118 View

Princeton University Buildings and Grounds Subject Files, 1802-1994 (bulk 1870s).

Title: Princeton University Buildings and Grounds Subject Files, 1802-1994 (bulk 1870s).

Consists of a subset of Historical Subject Files in the Princeton University Archives relating to the buildings, grounds, and architects of the University. Though primarily composed of photocopies from university publicationss and regional newspapers, there are also insurance surveys, press releases from the Department of Public Information, and programs from dedication ceremonies. Less frequently, there are general inter-office correspondence, schematic floor plans, student papers, excerpts from books on architects, excepts from Trustees' minutes, campus maps or diagrams, bibliographic references, and invitations to ceremonies. The coverage of the collection is weakest for the earliest and most recent buildings, with the exception of Nassau Hall. The construction booms under Presidents McCosh (1868-1888) and Hibben (1910-1932) enjoy a proportionate amount of documentation. The files also contain substantial correspondence (1912-1943) between Beatrix Farrand and University officials related to her work on the campus.

ArchivalResource: 7.14 linear ft. (17 archival boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122510331 View

Department of Grounds and Buildings Subject Files, 1802-1994

Title: Department of Grounds and Buildings Subject Files 1802-1994

The Department of Grounds and Buildings Subject Files contain information relating to the buildings, grounds, and architects of Princeton University. They also include information on the development of the campus and the various chronologies of construction and land acquisition that have been gathered.

ArchivalResource: 7.14 linear feet; 17 archival boxes

http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/xw42n7895 View

James, Henry, 1843-1916. Henry James letters to Mary Cadwalader Jones, 1883-1915.

Title: Henry James letters to Mary Cadwalader Jones, 1883-1915.

Also includes letters from Henry James to Beatrix Farrand (Jones' daughter) and to Whitridge, probably American lawyer Frederick Wallingford Whitridge.

ArchivalResource: 1 volume (.3 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/612706867 View

Woodlawn Cemetery (New York, N.Y.). Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999.

Title: Woodlawn Cemetery records, 1863-1999.

This collection includes records created and collected by the Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, New York, during the course of their operations between 1863 and circa 1990.

ArchivalResource: approximately 800 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/271455774 View

Beatrix Farrand : vertical file.

Title: Beatrix Farrand : vertical file.

ArchivalResource:

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/81511905 View

Wharton, Edith, 1862-1937. Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive).

Title: Edith Wharton collection, 1868-1981 (inclusive).

The Edith Wharton Collection consists of manuscripts, correspondence, photographs, and personal papers relating to the life and career of American author Edith Wharton, as well as letters and research material gathered by Gaillard Lapsley, Percy Lubbock, Oscar Lichtenberg, Georges Markow-Totevy, and Louis Auchincloss.

ArchivalResource: 31.0 linear feet (67 boxes)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702132873 View

Edith Wharton papers, 1935-1939.

Title: Edith Wharton papers, 1935-1939.

Collection consists principally of typescript copies of Wharton's will and documents relating to the disposition of her estate.

ArchivalResource: 1 box (.25 linear ft.).

https://search.library.berkeley.edu/permalink/01UCS_BER/10rhv18/alma991044171489706532 View

Simpson family. Papers, 1919-1989, 1929-1939 (bulk).

Title: Papers, 1919-1989, 1929-1939 (bulk).

The Simpson Family Papers consist mainly of correspondence and photographs. The bulk of the correspondence, contained in seven folders, covers the period 1929 to 1939, when work on the carriage road system was in the process of completion. Major correspondents are chief engineer, Paul D. Simpson, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and his office staff. Topics covered include engineering techniques and problems, establishment of boundarylines, purchase of lots, placement of the roads, and legal issues. Thereare also scattered letters to and from other members of Rockefeller's design team, including the Olmsted Brothers firm, architect Grosvenor Atterbury, and landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand. Also present are 329 printsand negatives depicting the completed roads and bridges as well as construction methods and equipment.

ArchivalResource: 2 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122611002 View

Farrand, Beatrix, 1872-1959. Papers of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1938-1953.

Title: Papers of Beatrix Jones Farrand, 1938-1953.

The Beatrix Farrand papers include correspondence (1938-1953) primarily to Arnold Arboretum administrators Paul C. Mangelsdorf, E.D. Merrill, Karl Sax, and Donald Wyman during and after her years as consultant landscape gardener to the Arboretum. Included in the correspondence are plant lists for the administration building and various locations in the Arboretum garden. Some publications written by Farrand are included from Arnoldia, Reef Point Gardens bulletin, and the Bulletin of popular information. A general file folder is also included with some biographical material and obituaries.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43343343 View

University of California, Berkeley. Index to the collection of Gertrude Jekylls̓ plans in the Beatrix Farrand Reef Point Collection at the University of California at Berkeley.

Title: Index to the collection of Gertrude Jekylls̓ plans in the Beatrix Farrand Reef Point Collection at the University of California at Berkeley. [1980 or 1981]

ArchivalResource: [80] leaves ; 29 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12413150 View

Beatrix Jones Farrand Collection, 1866-1959

Title: Beatrix Jones Farrand Collection, 1866-1959

The collection consist of personal and professional papers, records of Farrand's work as a landscape architect, and records relating to the Reef Point Library.

ArchivalResource: 16 cartons, 22 boxes, 1 half box, 6 flat boxes, 5 card file boxes, 20 flat file drawers

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/tf558004cz View