Dearest Wally and Stradivarius… Yours Ever M , the Correspondence Between Walter Gore and Marie Rambert

Ten years ago, in Dance Research VI.1 (Spring 1988), I outlined the holdings of the Rambert Dance Company Archive. Inevitably the collection has developed since that time and recentl a series of significant donations and acquisitions have enriched the resources. The material on Andr&e Howard has expanded with both the acquisition of a collection previously deposited in the Benesh Institute including designs for The Sailor's Return, and a generous donation of documents from her adoptedfamily. A significant gift of Antony Tudor and Hugh Laing material has been receivedfrom Therese Langfield including some of Laing's sketch books. One of these contains ideasfor The Judgment of Paris, and there is a set of Jadia Benois' designsfor the men's costumesfor Dark Elegies. These are not the costumes as worn or at least photographedfor the premiere but the ones adoptedfor subsequent performance. Also acquired is a substantial collection documenting the dance activities at the Arts Theatre, London (the professional London Ballet, Ballet Rambert and the Arts Theatre Ballet and amateur Occasional Ballet) when Harold Rubin managed the venue at the outbreak of the 1939-45 War. The largest addition to the archive, however, has been the Walter Gore-Paula Hinton Archive which documents their lives and careers and which came to the

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