{"value"=>"<p>The Administration series comprises files for individuals and organizations who either worked for or had business dealings with the company. The series includes mainly out-going, incoming, and inter-office business correspondence, telegrams, memoranda, and contracts, and is divided into five subseries.</p> <p>Correspondence to and from Lucia Chase in her various capacities as director, board member, and patron, constitutes the first of the five subseries (V.A.). In addition to business records, this category also contains a small amount of personal and family correspondence, as well as two date books, honors received, and articles and speeches written by <span class=\"persname\">Lucia Chase</span>.</p> <p>The largest category in the Administration series is the Alphabetical Correspondence (V.B.). This group comprises files for 173 individuals/organizations including small booking representatives, promotional people, company managers, other organizations and companies, Ballet Theatre Foundation board members, stage managers and crew, political figures, advance and press agents, wardrobe personnel, secretaries, regisseurs, financial and legal advisors, and others.</p> <p>The files for <span class=\"persname\">Charles Payne</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Richard Pleasant</span>, <span class=\"persname\">John Onysko</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Jeannot Cerrone</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Michel Delaroff</span>, <span class=\"persname\">Peter Lawrence</span>, and <span class=\"persname\">Oliver Smith</span> are quite extensive and provide particularly valuable, indepth information concerning the day-to-day activities of the organization. Other files, while not as substantial in quantity of items, contain letters pertaining to important events or subjects of interest. For example, the <span class=\"persname\">Eugene Berman</span> file includes a letter in which the artist details <span class=\"persname\">George Balanchine's</span> remembrances of technical effects in the <span class=\"persname\">Maryinsky's</span> production of <span class=\"persname\"> <em>Giselle</em></span>. <span class=\"persname\">Lincoln Kirstein's</span> file contains a letter proposing a merger between Ballet Society and Ballet Theatre.</p> <p>The Administration series also contains the more general Chronological Correspondence subseries (V.C.), which concerns requests for information about the company and the school; telegrams; fan letters; invitations to company functions; and contracts with various business associates.</p>"}