General correspondence, 1920-1967

Component identifier:

Series 3

Content Summary:

General correspondence, including personal and some business and financial correspondence. The business correspondence mainly relates to Algeranoff's lectures on dance. A highlight of the personal correspondence is the detailed correspondence with Peggy van Praagh, 1960-1967. Some drafts and carbons of Algeranoff's own letters are found in this series. Some of the correspondence is written in French, German and Spanish.

Among the correspondents are Victor Dandré (see also Series 5), William Whewell, Richard Hirabe, Max Terpis (Berlin), Leila and Sir Sahib Singh Sokhey (Bombay), Madri Desai, Hilda Butsova, Troy Kinney, Vivian Van Damm (Markova Dolin Ballet), Ernst Krauss, Paget-Fredericks (USA), S. and J. Jasinski, Dorothy Stevenson, Nina and John Wells, Mona Inglesby, Yurek Shabelevski, Serge Grigorieff, Faith Pridie, Joan Van Wart, Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Peggy van Praagh, National Association of Teachers of Dancing, The British Council, Gunnar Brunvoll, Serge and Agnes Babichev, Joan and Betty Rayner, National Theatre and Fine Arts Society of Tasmania, Uday Shankar, Louis van Eyssen, Isabel Grant, Malcolm Hughes, Sir Eugen Millington-Drake and Katharine Susannah Prichard.

Business correspondence relating to major companies is held in Series 5 - Series 14. Correspondence relating to My years with Pavlova is held in Series 16.

Please note: selected letters from this series have been digitised, and are available online through this finding aid. The digitised items are numbers 98, 105, 133, 151, 154, 162, 172-173, 184, 206, 214-219, 221-223, 227-231, 237, 255, 268, 303, 426, 432-433, 526, 534, 542, 553, 557, 560, 562, 566, 568, 577, 581, 583, 586, 591, 596, 603, 610, 613, 627, 637, 639, 646, 658-660, 667, 673, 675, 677, 679-680, 686, 689, 695-696, 700-701, 705, 711, 721-722, 726, 737, 772, 779, 806, 811, 851, 854-855, 866, 877, 879, 885, 897, 909, 929-931, 935, 944, 960-961, 968-969, 973, 978, 987, 998, 1006, 1010, 1036, 1042, 1057, 1067, 1075, 1106, 1120, 1126-1127, 1130, 1132, 1149, 1208, 1230, 1279 and 1336.

Immediate source of acquisition:

The Algeranoff Papers were donated to the Library by Algeranoff's son, Noel Essex, in 1969 and 1971.

Names:

Algeranoff, Harcourt, 1903-1967

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