Letters to Lincoln Kirstein, 1947-1976.

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Letters to Lincoln Kirstein, 1947-1976.

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This collection contains letters sent to Lincoln Kirstein between 1947 and 1976 by a range of friends, colleagues, and business associates. Correspondents include W. H. Auden, Sir Cecil Beaton, Rowland Burden-Muller, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Dame Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell. The collection also contains a folder related to Kirstein's collection of art works depicting cats.

.63 linear foot (2 boxes)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 8113922

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Sitwell, Osbert, 1892-1969

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Cartier-Bresson, Henri, 1908-2004

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Kirstein, Lincoln, 1907-1996

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American ballet director, writer, and dance historian, 1907-1995. Lincoln Kirstein was born in Rochester, NY, educated at Harvard (B.A. 1929, M.A. 1930). He married Fidelma Cadmus, sister of artist, Paul Cadmus, in 1941 and served in the U.S. Army 1943-45. He co-founded School of American Ballet with George Balanchine and Edward M.M. Warburg in 1934. Participated in the founding and/or direction of American Ballet in 1935, Ballet Caravan 1936-41, Ballet Society in 1946, and became general direct...

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

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