Personal and professional correspondence with letters, postcards, telegrams, greeting cards, etc. to and from individuals and groups and organizations. Incoming and outgoing correspondence is combined, and the majority of the items are correspondence to Morrison. Entries with a single name indicate that the folder contains incoming or outgoing correspondence directly with Morrison, while related correspondence not to her is indicated with both names. Some correspondence is addressed not only to Morrison, but also to her husband Robert Morrison and/or her partner Sybil Shearer. Most of Morrison’s outgoing letters are likely drafts written in the later years of her life. Because many of these pages are undated and unnumbered, it is likely that some pages are misfiled.

Covers a variety of topics ranging from personal and family correspondence, letters from dancers and choreographers, appreciation from Morrison’s portrait subjects, and comments about her exhibitions. Family correspondence includes letters to and from her mother and father, Fanny Balfour and Alexander Balfour, brother Malcolm Balfour, niece Tain Balfour and other relatives including Jack Skinner and Thomas Lindley.

Professional correspondence includes letters of introduction, such as a 1935 letter from Mary Woolley to Chief Justice Charles Hughes discussing Morrison’s work on the Great American series. Other highlights are letters of appreciation from portrait subjects such as Thornton Wilder, Karl Priebe, Maud Slye, Abraham Rattner, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Also included is a draft letter written by Morrison to Alice Toklas requesting a photographic session with Gertrude Stein. Correspondence with dancers, choreographers, and critics include letters to and from Ann Barzel, Hanya Holm, Walter Terry, and Doris Hering.