SINCERELY YOURS – letters from the collection

spanish democracy CLUB

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Broadsheet for José Cansino and Tonia de Aragon’s performance at Eaton Auditorium, Toronto, 1935 (Alison Sutcliffe Collection). Click image to see full photo.
Canadian dancers were no strangers to using dance to raise funds for various charitable causes. 

After she returned from New York City, Alison Sutcliffe soon found work teaching dance for the Toronto Conservatory of Music (later Royal) where the conductor and composer Ernest MacMillan was her boss. In her collection are many pieces of correspondence that reveal the connections within the arts community between Hart House, the Conservatory, and individual artists. This letter is also a reminder of the fact that the Arts & Letters Club began as a men’s club; its women-only parallel, the Heliconian Club, began in 1909 and counted Alison Sutcliffe among its members in the 1930s. (Letter from Alison Sutcliffe Collection)

Elsa Brunelleschi, c. 1935 / Photo: Reprograph Studio (Alison Sutcliffe Collection). Click image to see full photo.
SINCERELY YOURS – letters from the collection

transcript

Apr. 19, 1938

Miss Sutcliffe,
34 Tyndall St.
Toronto, Ont.

Dear Miss Sutcliffe:

The Spanish Democracy Club wishes to convey to you the warmest thanks for your kind co-operation in making our function of April the 8th, the success it was.

It is the intention of the club to organize similar functions in the future for the same charitable purpose and we hope that your valuable service will be available again.

We are enclosing one dollar ($1.00) for your accompanist as we promised, as a token to show in a very small way our appreciation of her valuable service.

Thanking you once more for your service, we remain,

Yours very truly,
Mary Somales F. Artiz
Corr. Secretary Secretary