{"value"=>"<p>The subject files contain Hill's address books, art, appointment books, personal family materials, notes, proposals, files on other dancers as well as schools where Hill taught, and drafts of her last will and testament.</p> <p>This sub-series includes several drafts of a 1937 proposal for the American School of the Dance - which Hill wanted to found in New York City to be a year round version of the Bennington School of the Dance. There are tribute letters written in 1966 by prominent dancers, choreographers, educators, and scholars presented to Hill at the Heritage Luncheon - an event sponsored by the American Association for Health, Physical Education and Recreation.</p> <p>Art includes two works by Ben Belitt - one a reproduction of a man sitting in a chair and one a pencil sketch of Hill at Bennington College entitled <span class=\"title\">Martha Dispenses the Word</span>. There is also a pen and ink drawing of Hill signed Ignacio Aguine.</p> <p>A booklet from Louise Klopper's memorial service, José Limón programs and an article written by Hill about Limón are here. Notes contain several notebooks in which Hill jotted down ideas and words for inspiration. There is correspondence regarding Hill's participation in an oral history project conducted at the 1990 International Dance Festival in Hong Kong.</p> <p>Personal and family materials include her mother's schoolgirl autograph book from 1887 and her address book from after her marriage to Grant Hill, a family genealogy, a pamphlet questioning the morality of dance, and Hill's grammar school commencement program from 1914.</p> <p>There is also a folder of materials relating to Mary Jo Shelly, who was the president of Bennington College until 1951, when she became the director of Women in the Air Force. Included in her materials are a notebook with course notes and an essay - <span class=\"title\">Facts and Fancies About the Dance in Education</span> and her unpublished manuscript <span class=\"title\">Bennington and the Dance in America</span>.</p> <p>Hill's writings include a draft of an essay entitled <span class=\"title\">New Directions in the Dance</span> as well as unidentified or untitled drafts of other essays or speeches.</p>"}