The correspondence series paints a vivid picture of the life of a dancer, with details of rehearsals, tour accommodations, business matters, costumes, and music choices. The struggle to earn a decent living or to make a profit, as well as the struggle to publicize dance are chronicled. On the other hand, the correspondence also tells the story of Ruth and her friends and families’ luxurious lives and world travels.

Throughout the correspondence, Ruth and her friends comment on the performances they have seen, providing a record of contemporary opinions as dance and music styles evolved. The most frequent correspondents are between Ruth Page her husbands Thomas Hart Fisher (1896-1969) and Andre Delfau (1914-2000), her friends, and her contemporaries and friends Isaac Van Grove, Friedrich Wilckens, Harald Kreutzberg, Anton Dolin, Ted Shawn, Claudia Cassidy, and Bentley Stone. Other notable correspondents include Isamu Noguchi, Adolph Bolm, John Crane, William Grant Still, John Alden Carpenter, Agnes de Mille, Mark Turbyfill, and Antoni Clavé,

The series includes incoming and outgoing letters, telegrams, and postcards. Also included are some related photographs, newspaper clippings, excerpted printed material, notes, contracts, programs, photocopied magazine articles, reviews, press comments, and artwork that have been kept with correspondence as originally arranged.

Transcribed letters are assigned numbers by date. Originals of these letters are in the Ruth Page Collection, Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Many of the letters were transcribed by Andrew Mark Wentink, who under Ruth Page’s guidance, edited and deleted portions of the letters.