SINCERELY YOURS – letters from the collection

lincoln Kirstein

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Ad for Ballet Caravan’s performance at Eaton Auditorium, Toronto, 1938 (Alison Sutcliffe Collection). Click image to see full photo.
Canadian dancers have a track record of holding receptions and parties for visiting foreign artists.  

The following correspondence about such a party comes from American director and patron Lincoln Kirstein, the man responsible for bringing George Balanchine to the United States. Also interesting is the response that Alison Sutcliffe began to draft on the reverse. We see her edits and short forms for the Jooss-Leeder School (J-L School) and Martha Graham (M.G.). (Letter from Alison Sutcliffe Collection)

Lincoln Kirstein, detail from a New York City Ballet souvenir program, 1968 (Flea Market Collection). Click image to see full photo.
SINCERELY YOURS – letters from the collection

transcript

Ballet Caravan Inc.
Lincoln Kirstein 
Director
637 Madison Ave.
New York City

Miss Alison Sutcliffe
Toronto Conservatory of Music
135 College Street
Toronto: Canada

Dear Miss Sutcliffe:

Thank you so very much for your extremely kind letter. As you probably have learned by this time, our Toronto date has been postponed until later on.

The Caravan would love to come to your house, if it would not be too much trouble. We are rather a small army, however, and I hate to impose on anybody. Ruthanna [Boris] is not any longer with us, but Ruby is, and I am sure she would love to stay.

Yours very sincerely
Lincoln Kirstein

October 8, 1938