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 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 14
Scope and Content Hughes to Milt. Handwritten letter on La Meri stationery. Letter has been torn in half. A photocopy of the letter is in the folder along with the original. In this letter to "Milt," La Meri asks him to "tell him I didn't mean all those tough things I said in the car" presumably referring to Charles Miller. She says that if she had been ten years younger, things may have turned out differently. She signs the letter "Dickie" as...
Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

[Jan?] 1962

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 15
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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten note on RMH notecard. Hughes thanks Miller for shopping for her in Europe and says she would like to have him visit the Cape. 1 item.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

11 Mar 1946

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 5
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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on stationery from the Brown Hotel in Louisville, Kentucky. Hughes is looking forward to being with Miller "one week from tonight" and asks if she "may have a date" with him the night she arrives in New York. She ends the letter with, "Thank god I shall see you again____& no___I can't consign such beautiful but chaotic thoughts to paper!!" 2 leaves. Envelope included.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

15 Sep 196[2?]

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 16
Scope and Content Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on plain stationery. She mentions remembering Gordon Craig and states that [Miller's] dissertation on him must have been very interesting research work. She also says that she and Lil [her sister] moved into their own house last May. They are so sure of staying there forever that "we are having the old family furniture shipped up from San Antonio (after 23 years in storage!)" She spent three weeks at "the Pillow" [Jacob's Pillow] during the summer; Ted...
Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

21 Nov 1962

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 17
Scope and Content Miller to Hughes. Carbon copy of a typed letter on onionskin. Miller describes his last trip to Europe and the Middle East. He mentions that whenever he is in Europe he always visits Gordon Craig who is now ninety years old and seems to be more like his mother every day [Ellen Terry]. He says that one of Craig's "legitimate" sons [Edward Carrick] is an art director for the J. Arthur Rank Organization in England and that they have become close friends due to the correspondence they shared...
Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

11 Jan 1963

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 18
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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on La Meri stationery. Hughes tells Miller that she will be going to New York City in February for a dance symposium and will be on a panel with Walter Terry. She is enclosing a snapshot of herself with her dog and her '51 car in front of their house. 1 leaf plus photograph.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

21 Jan 1963

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 19
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Miller to Hughes. Carbon copy of a typed letter on plain paper. Miller says that this summer he plans to buy a Citroen and visit the French, Spanish, and North African coasts. Also mentions that the Zeckendorf Corporation is now developing Century City, former home of 20th Century-Fox. Miller describes in detail the courses he is teaching in Asian Studies [at La Verne College]. 2 leaves.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

25 Mar 1963

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 20
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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Miss Russell M. Hughes stationery. Hughes is writing a book on dance composition. She talks about a Walter Terry symposium that she participated in. Also, now that she doesn't care about jobs anymore, she keeps getting job offers that she must decline. 1 leaf.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

17 Apr 1963

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 21
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Miller to Hughes. Carbon copy of a typed letter on onionskin. Miller comments on Hughes's book project. Also talks about a trip he took up north (California and Oregon) to see the redwoods and is interested in researching the dances of the northern California Indians. He is interested in contacting Grant Code. 1 leaf.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence

12 May 1963

 Item — Box: 9, Folder: 22
Scope and Content

Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Miss Russell M. Hughes stationery. She is working on her manuscript [ Elements of Dance Composition]. A few comments on old friends; i.e. Richey lives in Deland, Florida; Aldo, who is a priest now, is in Mexico City. She gives the address of Grant Code who is an expert on the American Plains Indian, particularly the Blackfoot Tribe. 1 leaf.

Dates: 1945 - 1989
Found in: USC Libraries Music Library / Charles James Miller papers / La Meri / Correspondence
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