| Description | Unsigned copies of Elmhirst Committee on Commitments grant funding proposals received in New York and forwarded to Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst by Anna Bogue. Proposals for funding included the Federation for Labor (Labour) and Brookwood College; Rexford Tugwell's Institute of Social Administration; and the American Civil Liberties Union defense (defence) fund for the Scottsboro Boys. There are verbatim minutes of a meeting of the Committee with statements by Eduard Lindeman, Ruth Morgan, and George Soule, discussing especially the work of the Women's Trade Union League. A typed letter (7 pp), 12 Mar 1933, describes Lydia Parrish's ethnomusicology work in Georgia; 'Recommendations made by Mrs Elmhirst's Committee at Meeting of 21 Feb 1933'; a letter to Bogue from Elizabeth Reynolds Hapgood mentions Maria Ouspenskaya and Stanislavski; copy of Committee notes, 29 Mar 1933, discusses A J Muste and support for Brookwood Labor College; a letter to Bogue from Nellie Cornish discusses the Cornish School's financial crisis 14 Mar 1933; there are also letters from Alexander and Helen Meiklejohn. A note from Bogue, 20 Apr 1933 mentions acquisition of 2 drawings of 'Emperor Jones' and a framed picture of the set for 'Antigone' which were purchased from the Theatre Arts Section of the Architectural League Exhibition and sent to England. |