Autograph letter signed and typed letter signed : Windsor, Vt. and St. Simons Island, Ga., to Stark Young, [no year] Aug. 31 and "Tues." [n.d.].

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Autograph letter signed and typed letter signed : Windsor, Vt. and St. Simons Island, Ga., to Stark Young, [no year] Aug. 31 and "Tues." [n.d.].

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A touching letter on the death of Young's nephew, and sending thanks for a copy of his Feliciana. She also comments on Martha Graham's 1935 performances at Bennington: "I was [impressed] by the abstraction of her dances, by the submergence of the personal and individual, as displayed in the mask-like faces of the dancers. We all wondered if in Americans there wasn't some compensation taking place in the choice of such a form of dance. After all we are rather a mixed race, a highly excitable one, with some violence in us ... We are betraying our emotion; we are losing the power of communicating naturally the beautiful features in human beings-our self-consciousness is corking up our feelings."

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Pierpont Morgan Library.

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