Louis Horst collection 1928-1964

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Louis Horst collection 1928-1964

http://archives.nypl.org/dan/19639

Part of the bequest of the late , this collection consists of five groups of manuscript materials: [Personal] Correspondence, Business Correspondence, Manuscripts, Records, and Miscellaneous items (mostly photostats of drawings and paintings). The personal correspondence, excepting a folder of letters from his mother to ca. 1928-29, is primarily social and congratulatory, i.e., telegrams, birthday cards, postcards, and Christmas cards. The business correspondence is almost exclusively concerned with [UNK] Observer, the magazine founded in 1934 and edited until his death in 1964. The majority of the manuscripts, which comprise the bulk of the collection, are edited articles for Dance observer. There is, however, a notebook containing classes in pre-classic dance forms and modern dance forms, and a second notebook, possibly kept by , for a class in dance composition taught by in [UNK]. The records and miscellaneous items are scant representations of a career fully documented in: *MGZRS , 1884-1964. Scrapbooks, 1915-1959. Louis Horst Louis Horst Mr. Horst Mr. Horst's Gertrude Lippincott Mr. Horst Horst, Louis

500 items (94 folders

The New York Public Library. Jerome Robbins Dance Division.

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SNAC Resource ID: 6310808

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