Typed letters signed (2) : New London, and Santa Barbara, to Katharine Cornell, 1948 Aug. 22 and 1948 Sept. 18.

In the first letter, Graham discloses her planned elopement with dancer and choreographer Erick Hawkins. She says she feels "slightly finished" after completing performances in New London: "I have come to the conclusion that I am not of a co-operative nature. I never [sic] seem to work well what with my secret vice of arrogance." She compares her current students to those at Bennington College, "where the pupils for the most part were non-professional in attitude, more on the healthy physical side and dance regarded as an aid to health and `grace.' " She discusses Erick Hawkins' new work, and a last-minute program change from the previous night: "I am of the opinion it is almost better to cancel the performance tha[n] to give one that is not as it should be." In the second letter, Graham apologizes for neglecting to mail the first, and describes her wedding in Santa Fe, noting the changes in the Presbyterian Church: "... the days when I looked at an ugly man in a wooden pulpit with a bunch of cosmos flowers in front of him and an ill-assorted quartet on his right with a beflowered lady organist with her back to us seems a thing of the past. The arrogance of sheer ugliness seems slightly less of a cult." With colorful descriptions of her hotel, the city of Santa Barbara, and Cady Wells' household.