Scope and Content Hughes to Miller. Handwritten note on plain paper. Hughes tells Miller about the last St. Denis Award competition, decrying the lack of dancers with "ideas" these days. She also includes a general newsletter about the 1981 Award in New York City (which was won by Nala Najan). Also that the E.D.A. received generous funds from the Owen Cheatham Foundation and the Capezio Foundation which will enable them to hold auditions in New York (rather than in Cape Cod) and to give the award to young...

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Hughes to Miller. Short handwritten note on a holiday greeting letter which has a photocopied photo of La Meri and the recipients of the seventh annual St. Denis Award for Creative Choreography. 2 leaves. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on La Meri stationery. Hughes thanks Miller for his check for EDA and names him "West Coast Representative" for the 1983 St. Denis Award. Also mentions that she lost her Belgian sheepdog during the holidays, but now has two new dogs to keep her company. 1 leaf. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on La Meri stationery. She mentions the outcome of the 1983 St. Denis Award competition in which she was sure a group from UCLA would win first prize, but she was mistaken. The trip to New York is getting more and more difficult now that she is eighty-five years old and not up to such an exhausting schedule. 1 leaf.

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Hughes to Miller. Short handwritten note on a holiday greeting letter consisting of a poem titled "Christmas--1983." With the holiday letter is also a photo holiday postcard of Hughes with two dogs. 2 items. Envelope included.

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Hughes to Miller. Typed letter on Miss Russell M. Hughes stationery. She gives Miller suggestions on books he might useful for his course and where he might find them. She is also working on a new edition of Spanish Dancing. 1 leaf. Envelope included.

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Miller to Hughes. Carbon copy of a typed letter on American Dance Therapy Association stationery. Miller mentions that he had been worried after not hearing from Hughes for so long, but now understands since she has moved back to Texas from Hyannis. He asks her about her cataracts and whether or not she will be having surgery. He also asks her what will be happening to the Ethnic Arts Council in Barnstable now that Hughes has left. 1 leaf.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on La Meri Ethnic Dance stationery. Hughes is back in San Antonio which is in the midst of a snowstorm which her friends say that she brought from Cape Cod. She tells Miller that the E.D.A. folded up and "died of malnutrition." But she is getting more attention as a dancer in San Antonio than she ever did in Cape Cod. 3 leaves. Envelope included.

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Miller to Hughes Carbon copy of a typed letter on American Dance Therapy Association stationery. Miller comments on Hughes's last letter regarding the closing of the E.D.A. and the disappearance (and return) of her dog, Barkus. In regard to her failing vision, he talks about cataract surgery and lens implants which his wife will be undergoing next month. 2 leaves.

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Hughes to Miller. Handwritten letter on paper which is illustrated with drawings of her two dogs, Barkus and Wendy. Her failing eyesight is causing her consternation because she misses her independence and being able to drive. 1 leaf. Envelope included.