Scope and Content Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Ethnic Dance Arts, Inc.stationery. Hughes talks about her heavy teaching schedule and that dancers just cannot work together, that it "is useless to hope that common good will ever replace professional jealousy." She has decided that when she leaves this world she would like to find Heaven like a rolling country inhabited only by animals; that she doesn't want to see any people for several centuries "and no...

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Hughes Ethnic Dance Corporation stationery. She thanks Miller for his check to EDA and says that she enjoyed their phone chat. She mentions that she has dogs (to love) and something to hope for--that "financial success will follow upon the heels of artistic success." 1 leaf. Envelope included.

Scope and Content Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on La Meri stationery. Hughes thanks Miller for his contribution to their ninth festival. She asks what he has been up to and says that all of her life is in the "newsletters" because dance is her whole life and she has no personal life. The only personal things she can mention is that she has been suffering from emphysema and that one of her dogs died recently. She says that she feels lucky that she has friends...

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on La Meri Ethnic Dance stationery. She has received a letter from Buddy who has been depressed since Lester's death; she never hears from Edna Dieman. She gives one class a week now, but is asked a lot for interviews because "I am now somewhat famous for having lived so long..." 1 leaf. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on La Meri Ethnic Dance stationery. Hughes mentions that she has sent her collection of "for-real" costumes to Walter Kolar at Duquesne University, and a couple of non-ethnic costumes to the college in Denton, Texas which she attended in 1917. She has also given the Kentucky Historical Society about $16,000 worth of Hughes memorabilia--furniture, photos, flat silver, etc. 1 leaf. Envelope included.

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Walter W. Kolar to Miller. Typed letter on stationery from Duquesne University Tamburitzans Institute of Folk Arts. Kolar tells Miller that his name was given to him by La Meri who donated much of her collections to their Library/Museum/Archives. Kolar invites Miller to possibly donate collections likewise and says he is enclosing some material that explains the story of the Tamburitzans. 1 leaf.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on La Meri Ethnic Dance stationery. Hughes went to New York last month to be the keynote speaker at the Dance Critics Association annual convention. While she was there, she caught up with old friends and lets Miller know all the news about them. 1 leaf. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten note on La Meri stationery. Hughes comments on the 25th anniversary of the closing of the Ethnologic Dance Center and includes an invitation to the reunion and presentation of the fifth St. Denis Award, to be held in New York City. 2 items. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on back of Ethnic Dance Arts press release. Hughes thanks Miller for his check and says that since EDA has moved from the Cape [Cod] to New York City, she is finding the commute tiring. 1 leaf.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten note on plain paper. Hughes thanks Miller for his check and says that she has been busy getting out flyers [for the St. Denis Award for Creative Choreography in the ethnic field competition]. 1 leaf. Flyer attached. Envelope included.