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Series 3: General correspondence, 1920-1967

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 Dandre (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 (http://nla.gov.au/nla.ms-ms2376). 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.

 

Folder 1 General correspondence, 1920-1926
Includes two detailed eyewitness accounts of the 1923 Tokyo earthquake.
Folder 2 General correspondence, 1927-1929
Includes letters by Leila Sokhey on Indian dance.
Folder 3 General correspondence, 1930
Folder 4 General correspondence, 1931-1932
Folder 5 General correspondence, 1933-1935
Includes original watercolour Christmas card and letter by Daryl Lindsay.
Folder 6 General correspondence, 1936-1937
Includes letters by Troy Kinney on dance lecturing; as well as a long biographical letter from Algeranoff to Miss Tuer-Partriege describing his career, the Anna Pavlova Company, and his impressions of Japan.
Folder 7 General correspondence, 1938-1939
Folder 8 General correspondence, 1940-1943
Folder 9 General correspondence, 1944-1945
Folder 10 General correspondence, 1946-1949
Folder 11 General correspondence, 1950
Folder 12-13 General correspondence, 1951
Folder 14 Telegrams, 1951
Relating to the premiere of 'For love or money' at the Royal Festival Hall, 1951.
Folder 15 General correspondence, 1952-1953
Folder 16 General correspondence, 1954
Folder 17 General correspondence, 1955
Folder 18 General correspondence, 1956
Folder 19 General correspondence, 1957
Folder 20 General correspondence, 1958
Folder 21 General correspondence, 1959
Folder 22 General correspondence, 1960
Folder 23 General correspondence, 1961
Folder 24 Correspondence with the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust, 1961-1962
Folder 25 General correspondence, 1962
Folder 26 General correspondence, 1963
Folder 27 General correspondence, 1964
Folder 28 General correspondence, 1965
Folder 29-30 General correspondence, 1966
Folder 31 General correspondence, 1967
Folder 32-33 Undated correspondence
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