Box 1
Container
Contains 14 Results:
Inscribed/Signed Ephemera. Miscellaneous material (greeting cards, photographs, programs, etc.) signed and/or inscribed by RUTH ST. DENIS including a 1923 (printed) Christmas card ("Yuletide Greetings") from Ted Shawn and RUTH ST. DENIS, a 1927 Christmas card ("Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 1928") from RUTH ST. DENIS (signed "Ruth" - featuring a photo image of RUTH ST. Denis and Ted Shawn "on the beach at Corpus Christi, Texas"), a 3. 5 x 5.5 - inch inscribed ("...1945") signed (sepia tone) photo postcard, of RUTH ST. DENIS in white gown, a (1919) 8 x 10 - inch inscribed ("To Mr. Low, with gratuity for 1919...") signed (sepia-tone) photograph (in dance pose), a (1949) 8 x 10 - inch inscribed ("To Chris, as backstage face...'49") signed ("Miss Ruth") black and white photograph, etc.
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Bowl of Saki, The (Monograph). A hardback personal copy of THE BOWL OF SAKI by Hazrat Inayat Khan (The Salland Press, Holland - 1936) signed (on the title page by RUTH ST. DENIS with many notations, in Ruth St. Denis' hand, throughout the book. Also included a lined notebook page (found folded in the monograph) with Miss Ruth's notation ("You were my god - Calif. - Aug - 39") and a 2.5 x 3.5 - inch (sepia) snapshot photograph of Ruth St. Denis holding a small dog (found pinned to page 223)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - Ted Shawn (sent to R. St. Denis). Miscellaneous notes (1922 - 24) to Ruth St. Denis from husband and business partner Ted Shawn including a "night letter" ("You have been divinely appointed to give the world beauty for ashes - your vision of the spirituality of art is your message and being of God it cannot fail - My thought is with you all day loving, confident and proud. I am at your feet - Love and gratitude to Albert. Ted") sent c/o Albert Bender (who arranged a Ruth St. Denis performance at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium on January 14th, 1922). A second note (c. 1924) sent "To Ruth St. Denis, High Priestess of the Dance..." includes a quote which , according to Ted Shawn (in January 1969) was printed in his April 1924 Carnegie Hall program ("Who is my greatest inspiration as an artist - Who has been big enough to let me grow in my own way - Who has been loving enough to always help me when I needed help - Who is my beloved wife, my loyal comrade, my patient guru - To her, this night I offer my undying gratitude. Ted Shawn")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - Ted Shawn (from R. St. Denis). A single (badly typed) 5-page letter (with corrections and notations, by Ruth St. Denis, in green ink) sent to estranged husband and business partner Ted Shawn (dated August 11, 1939) from Ruth St. Denis ("Dearest Ted…All mixed up about you. Desiring you without even being willing to pay the price. Married and yet not married. Stupid blind egotist! No wonder you couldn't live with me. No wonder your manhood was thwarted and distorted by constant assumption of superiority...Floored constantly by vanity, pride and sensuality, faintly underhanded, cowardly. Attracting defenseless boys who need a friend and a mother and, instead find an impossible lover...")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - David Moore. Miscellaneous notes and letters (1938 - 41) from David Moore, a dance student of Ruth St. Denis and/or an intimate (?) friend ("Ruth, darling…," Dearest Ruth…," etc.) including many letters describing his unhappy family life, with his parents, in San Francisco ("...I am a sorry creature in their eyes.."), his decision to pursue a life in the theatre ("...something I've been trying to accomplish for two years..."), references to meetings with Ruth St. Denis ("Overjoyed at your coming! Hoping all things regarding trip and stay will work out...for I have been very lonely. Your loving, David!" and "...Be gentle with me and accept my love, remember that it is myself I fear. Why should I be afraid of the comforting moments I have spent with you - other than they might end?") and references to unhappy incidents in the life of Ruth St. Denis ("...The real you will emerge from this terrible inheritance of pride and lies and fear and sensuality and false ambition...I'm suffering with you..." and "...Your letters look as though you are having a tremendous struggle with your own ego. May God take it easily from you..."). No further information has been found to explain or describe this relationship
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - B. Horam. A single (handwritten) 3-page letter (dated July 30, 1923 on "THE STREAMLINER - City of San Francisco" train stationery) to Ruth St. Denis (344 72nd Street, NY - the Denishawn School - forwarded to "Mariarden" (Theatre in the Woods/School for Dancing and Dramatic Arts were Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn taught dance and lectured) in Peterboro (Peterborough), NH). Return address "B. Horam 3957 23rd Avenue, Minneapolis, Minnesota." ("Beloved Ruth...Your love has been so pure - so good. It's a miracle I didn't destroy it. I am so fortunate to have known Sharon, Connecticut and Ilene...Remember always that she - Ilene - is your best friend. She would cut off her right arm for you - if the need came, I'm sure...lovingly, D----")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - Ruth Mattimore. A single (handwritten) 3-page letter (dated July 31, 1923) to Ruth St. Denis in Peterboro (Peterborough), NH from "Ruth Mattimore (a dance student of Ruth St. Denis) - Manhattan Beach, California" ("Dearest Miss Ruth…I wanted to tell you just what being with you that short a time had done for me. The inspiration and the mental stimulus you gave me were just what I needed and had to have...")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - Maggie Crook. A single (handwritten) 6-page letter (dated May 25, 1923) sent to Ruth St. Denis (344 West 72nd Street, NY) from "Mrs. W. P. 'Maggie' Crook" (a dance student of Ruth St. Denis) - 1830 21st Street, Los Angeles, California ("Dearest Comrade…I am so thrilled at the paper notices and the huge success that is attending you. I truly know how inspirational your performances are and it is such a joy to know that they are appreciated by the hungry...")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972
Correspondence - Charles Hurtgen. Miscellaneous (handwritten) letters (dated May 8, 1941 and August 18, 1941) sent to Ruth St. Denis (139 East 52nd Street, NY and 66 Fifth Avenue, NY) from Charles Hurtgen (possibly a former dance student) in the military service at Fort Jackson, South Carolina ("Dearest Ruth - Not half an hour ago I wrote you six pages trying to include answers to the several questions which you asked...")
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
Information and ephemera pertaining to the private life and solo career of dance pioneer and businesswoman Ruth St. Denis.
Dates:
Circa 1900-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1972