| Description | Two files containing photocopied letters to and from Maya Deren. Some highlights include, a letter concerning her travels in Haiti, including her stint in 1947 on the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship for Creative Work in Motion Pictures. These letters discuss the logistical challenges she faced with importing equipment for her ethnographic work and film project and the suspicions surrounding her portrayal of Voudoun culture. Additional correspondence covers her filmography, her book Divine Horsemen, and personal letters regarding her then-husband, Teiji Ito-who scored several of her films-where Deren argues against his military draft. There are also letters about the hospitalisation of her husband, various fellowship applications, and poetic reflections on her day-to-day experiences, including details of a hospital stay for an operation she underwent. Financial documents and letters outline her expenses in various film projetcs, including her project in Haiti, and there are photocopies of handwritten notes and correspondence with Creative Film Associates and her physician, Dr. Max Jacobson, with whom she shared a close confidant relationship. Additional letters on various topics are also included. |