{"value"=>"<p>875 items: 15 from 1903-1918; 171 from 1920-1929; 311 from 1930-1939; 840 from 1940-1949; 251 from 1950-1959; 3,287 from 1960-1971. Permission required from correspondent during his or her lifetime. The correspondence before 1929 consists mainly of personal letters between <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> and documents the early years of their marriage. The 1930's correspondence, with the exception of four letters from <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> to <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span>, consists of a series of letters between <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Lucien Price</span> about <span class=\"persname\">Jacob's Pillow</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> and his Men Dancers. <span class=\"persname\">Shawn</span> used an edited version of these letters for the fifth section of his unpublished autobiography. (For a manuscript of proposed autobiography, see section III of this collection.) Correspondence from the 1940's through the 1960's consists of both personal and business letters, mainly written to <span class=\"persname\">Shawn</span> by notable people in the dance world. A large portion of the letters were written by modern, ethnic, and ballet teachers and dancers from all over the world in regard to the summer programs at <span class=\"persname\">Jacob's Pillow</span>. Approximately 400 letters are between <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span> and <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span>, mostly from the eight final years of <span class=\"persname\">St. Denis'</span> life. Within each of the six time periods in this section, letters appear alphabetically under the correspondent's last name. For example, to locate letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Ruth St. Denis</span>, one would have to look under the letter “s” in each time period. When <span class=\"persname\">Shawn</span> is the correspondent, letters appear under the last name of the individual who received the letter. For example, letters written by <span class=\"persname\">Ted Shawn</span> to <span class=\"persname\">Arthur Todd</span> appear under the name <span class=\"persname\">Todd</span> as TS/<span class=\"persname\">Todd, Arthur</span></p>"}