Loie Fuller papers 1892-1913

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Loie Fuller papers, 1892-1913

Loie Fuller papers 1892-1913

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The bulk of this collection consists of the manuscript, in English, of the French translation of Loie Fuller's autobiography published by in Paris in . In stylistically different English from the manuscript, the French translation was published by in London in . The French edition was called , and the English edition was called . The manuscript is arranged according to the order of the English edition and is lacking only chapter 11 and sections of chapters 6 and 21. It covers a few childhood events but primarily the events of the years from 1892-1907, including experiences with (folder 20) who is not identified by name. The published English version of the autobiography loses some of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of the author's original manuscript. The published manuscript is followed by material, mostly anecdotal, and unpublished, meant for the autobiography; outline plans for a second volume and material which would have become a part of it; two essays, America and Americans and The Boston blue-stocking; a legal document releasing her from a contract with and in 1892; programs, including a holograph paste-up of her first performance in Kiel, undated, and a flyer-program presenting to Boston (?), undated; 12 photographs of Loie Fuller; 30 photographs of friends, admirers and fellow dancers, including Gertrud Von Axen and (possibly a niece); and a portfolio of 23 watercolors presented to her by students of the on the occasion of her 550th performance in Paris, March 24, 1895. F. Juven H. Jenkins Isadora Duncan Charles A. Hoyt Charles W. Thomas Gertrud Von Axen Dick Fuller 1908 1913 Quinze ans de ma vie Fifteen years of a dancer's life Beaux-Arts

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.