| Description | Correspondence with Deirdre Hurst du Prey, including letters recounting a trip with Beatrice Straight to India in 1935; letters from New York; reports from London to Dorothy Elmhirst on drama instruction and costumes; letters from the Chekhov Theatre Studio, Ridgefield, Connecticut; contracts for du Prey's assistance in transcribing Chekhov's translations of his lessons, lectures, and criticisms; a list of transcribed shorthand notes made by du Prey of Chekhov's lecture notes and essays, 1936-1942; a history of the several versions of Chekhov's 'To the Actor', from the records of Deirdre Hurst du Prey; a history of the tape recordings of lectures given by Michael Chekhov in Hollywood in 1954; correspondence (1961-1962) about du Prey's collection of lecture notes and tape recordings of Michael Chekhov; an inventory of Chekhov records at Dartington (1969); later notes about the Chekhov archive at Dartington Hall. |