1. Correspondence
Series Scope and Contents Summary
1.1. Letters to Isadora Duncan
Mary Desti (ca. 1921)
William Aspinwall Bradley (1927)
1.2. Letters to Mary Desti
Joe A. Milward (1922)
Isadora [Duncan] and (1925 undated)
Louis La Chard (August 5, 1927)
Louis K. Anspacher (August 23, 1927)
Mary [Fanton Roberts] (September 2, 1927)
Juliet B. Rublee (September 10, 15, 23 and 24, 1927)
Eddy [?] (September 15, 1927)
Glenway W[estcott] (September 16, 1927)
Elizabeth Henderson Fischer (September 17, 1927)
Hottoi [?] (September 17, 1927)
Marion Spigarn (September 21, 1927)
Tommy S. Bradley (September 21, 1927)
"Dougie" [Allan Ross Macdougall] (September 23, 1927)
R. Sornin (September 25, 1927)
Lottie Yorska and (September 28 and 30, 1927 undated)
Jose Clara (September 29, 1927)
Alice Spicer and (1928 undated)
Clem[ence Randolph]
Douglas Rigby
H. G. S.
[unidentified sender]
Yvonne [?]
Mario Meunier
Edith S. Heald
Ethel [?]
Augustin Duncan
Adeline Mallet
Form letter from Les Amis d'Isadora (1927)
[Mary Desti] to [?] (1930)
1.3. Telegrams
Received by Desti
Isadora Duncan (July 28, 1927)
Paris Singer (July-September 1927)
Telegrams dated September 15, 1927
Adelina Mallet
Dougie [Allan Ross Macdougall]
Juliet Rublee
Preston [Sturges]
Aimée Gafitzine
Cecile [Sartoris]
Raymond [Duncan]
Helen Freeman
Telegrams dated September 16, 1927
Mario Meunier
Carlton Hill
Christine [?]
Paula [?]
Ralph [?]
[unidentified sender]
Mercedes [D'Acosta] (September 18, 1927)
Kerstrat (September 24, 1927)
[Juliet] Rublee (September 24, 1927).
Louis [?] (September 26, 1927)
From Villaneuva
To Raymond Duncan (September 15, 1927)
To Ruth Mitchell (September 15, 1927)
From Boncour to "famille Isadora Duncan" (September 15, 1927)
2. Printed Items
Series Scope and Contents Summary
2.1. Clippings
Microfilm of scrapbook of newspaper clippings (1901-1911)
Newspaper clippings from Argus de la Presse agency (photocopies for researcher use)
1909-1927, January
1927, September 16
1927, September 17-21
1927, September 22-27
1927, September 28-30
1927, October 1-9
1927, October 10-20
and 1927, October 21-1929 undated
2.2. Programs
Isadora Duncan in her "Celebrated Classical Dances" at the Criterion Theatre (1908)
Dionysion (1915)
Metropolitan Opera House
Isadora Duncan Dress Rehearsal (November 1916)
Isadora Duncan (March 1917)
Isadora Duncan and pupils of her school (April 1917)
Isadora Duncan Dancers (April 1920)
Programm der tänze, Miss Isadora Duncan
Isadora Duncan walzer mit Begleitung von Orchester und Klavier
Récital Listz donné par Isadora Duncan and Irakli Orbeliani (1926)
Récital Isadora Duncan et Albert Wolff at Théatre Mogador (July 1927)
Dance festival in memory of Isadora Duncan ... danced by Maria Theresa
2.3. Other Printed Items
Brochure Isadora Duncan (in Russian) with illustration by Van Deering Perrin (1921)
Book of verse (in Russian, 1923)
"There Should be a Duncan Monument," Dance Magazine (1928)
Advertisement for Isadora Duncan by José Clarã and Georges A. Denis (1928)
Card for Studio d' Isadora Duncan, Nice
Pamphlet concerning Augustin Duncan and play, The Breaks
3. Other Materials
Series Scope and Contents Summary
Photograph of Isadora and young students
List of charges at Le Grand Hotel, Juan-les-Pins (August 1927)
Printed card to Studio d'Isadora Duncan, Nice, containing (on verso) the last note written by Isadora Duncan. Reproduced as illustrations in Desti's The Untold Story, p. 278. (ca. 1927)
Manuscript note with caption: "Semaine memoriale Isadora Duncan. Paris, Printemps" (1928)
Photograph: snapshot of Isadora Duncan in dress given her by Desti. Inscribed by Isadora: "Thank you for the lovely dresses and shawl."
Manuscript note indicating persons possessing parts of Isadora Duncan's memoirs: Madame Sartoris, Mr. Bradley, Hughes Massie, D. Nickson. Stationery has printed heading: Studio-Appartments Hotel, Paris
Manuscript note on verso of blank hotel receipt
Manuscript note (by Desti?) on cardboard
Manuscript list of names
Ephemera from restaurants in France
Envelopes containing fragments of dress and shawl, reputedly those worn by Isadora at the time of her death
Scarf fragment (Reputedly the scarf that strangled Isadora; published descriptions of the scarf do not coincide.)