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Grant Hyde Code was a well-known writer and lecturer on theater and dance. A 1918 graduate of Harvard University, he, after World War I service, taught English at Harvard, Radcliff and other institutions of higher education. A former editor of Dance Observer,he was the founder and manager of the Brooklyn Museum Dance Center (1935-1938) which sponsored recitals and exhibitions. Mr. Hyde was also an actor, teacher, and public-relations person. Among his movie credits are The Miracle Workerand Serpico.He died, age 78, on June 28, 1974 in New York City. Holographs and typescripts, including letters, notes, miscellaneous documents, lectures, articles, chapters for a proposed book, and poetry. The material dates primarily from 1936-1941, when Grant Code was working as an editor at the Brooklyn Museum and attempting to organize a dance program there. Many of the letters refer to his attempts to collaborate with the Federal Theater Project of the WPA in setting up a workshop for young choreographers. less