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Prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn letters on display

LONDON -- Private letters between prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn, revealing her doubts as a dancer, and an English painter can be read by the public at a London museum.

The nine handwritten letters from Fonteyn to Robert Furse were bought by the Royal Opera House and were never made public, the Scotsman said Tuesday. They are on display at the Churchill Museum and Cabinet War Rooms in London.

The letters offer insight into the Sadlers Wells Ballet -- the future Royal Ballet -- during World War II, when it performed to boost morale, the Royal Opera House said.
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