Agnes de Mille papers 1926-1975

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Agnes de Mille papers 1926-1975

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19627

Comprises correspondence, scenarios, choreographic notes, notebooks and notes pertaining to articles, monographic works, stage and television productions, unpublished materials, and early memorabilia. Includes drafts and revisions in holograph and typescript as well as carbon copies and photocopies. writing in this collection, parts of which appear in note and draft form, include: and the “Russian journals” kept by (1966 and 1969). Also included are materials relating to the ballets and the ballet sequences in and Major correspondents include , , , , , , and . De Mille's de Mille Lily Bess Campbell Lucia Chase Allan Devoe Beulah Flebbe Carmelita Maracci Oliver Smith Joseph Welch And Promenade Home, Dance to the Piper, Speak to Me, Dance with Me, Where the Wings Grow, Fall River Legend, Golden Age, Rodeo, Black Ritual, A Rose for Miss Emily, Carousel, Brigadoon, Oklahoma.

145 folders

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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