A Guide to the Papers of Willa Cather, 1899-1949 Cather, Willa, Papers 6494, etc.

A Guide to the Papers of Willa Cather, 1899-1949

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Accession number

6494, etc.

Title

Papers of Willa Cather 1899-1949

Physical Characteristics

This collection consists of ca. 290 items.

Language

English

Administrative Information

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Use Restrictions

No copies in any format of photostats from originals in the Pierpont Morgan Library

Preferred Citation

Papers of Willa Cather, 1899-1949, Accession #6494, etc., Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va.

Acquisition Information

6494: Deposit, 1960 April 30; Gift July 1, 1991 6494-a: Purchase, 1963 January 16 6494-b: Deposit, 1963 December 17 (Accessioned 1964 May 11); Gift July 1, 1991 6494-c: Purchase, 1965 September 27 (Accessioned 1965 November 15) 6494-d: Purchase, 1966 February 15. 6494-e: Purchase, 1967 December 13 (Accessioned 1968 September 4) 6494-f: Purchase, 1968 May 23 (Accessioned September 26) 6494-g: Archival transfer, 1973 September 25. 6494-h: Archival transfer, n.d. 6494-i: Purchase, 1977 October 5. 6494-j: Purchase, 1981 February 11. 6494-k: Archival transfer, 1982 April 19. 6494-l: Gift, 1983 July 14. 6494-m: Gift, 1983 December 20. 6494-n: Gift, 1984 April 16. 6494-o: Purchase, 1989 April 19. 6494-p: Transfer, 1989 June 22. 6494-q: Purchase, 1989 July 19. 6494-r: Purchase, 1989 November 11. 6494-s: Purchase, 1993 January 4. 6494-t: Purchase, 1994 December 23. 6494-u: Purchase, 1995 December 12. 6494-v: Purchase, 1997 April 14. 6494-w: Transfer, 1998 September 1. 6494-x: Purchase, 2001 August 29. 6494-y: Purchase, 2002 July 11. 6494-z: Purchase, 2003/2004. 6494-aa: Purchase, 2004 February 4. 6494-ab: Given by Murray Nimmo in honor of Gregg Ross Hopkins, 2009 June 26.

Biographical/Historical Information

Willa Cather, 1873-1947: Family: Given name originally Wilella; born December 7, 1873, in Back Creek Valley, VA; died of a cerebral hemorrhage, April 24, 1947, in New York, NY; daughter of Charles F. (a rancher and insurance salesman) and Mary Virginia (Boak) Cather. Education: University of Nebraska, A.B., 1895. Career: Newspaper correspondent in Nebraska, c. 1890-1895; Daily Leader, Pittsburgh, PA, telegraph editor and drama critic, 1897-1901; traveled in Europe, 1902; Allegheny High School, Pittsburgh, teacher of English and Latin and head of English department, 1902- 1905; McClure's, New York, NY, managing editor, 1906-1911; full- time writer, 1911-1947.

Willa Sibert Cather is among the most distinguished American women in early twentieth-century fiction. She wrote most of her major works between 1913 and the late 1920s, during an age that encompassed World War I and spanned massive social change and modernization. As related by Louis Auchincloss in Pioneers and Caretakers, Cather felt that the world had split in two after 1922 and that she "belonged to the earlier half." Her writings reflect a desire to withdraw from the modern world into the refuge of a stable past.

Critics have compared Cather's balanced, carefully crafted, and evocative prose style to that of other writers, including mentor Sarah Orne Jewett, American novelist Henry James, and French naturalist Gustave Flaubert. Cather strove to preserve the past through her works, depicting the harsh life of pioneering immigrant farmers who settled the prairies of the western United States in such novels as O Pioneers! and My Antonia. Several other novels and the bulk of her short fiction explore another recurring theme-- the complexities of the artistic temperament: Cather often portrayed artists in conflict, wrestling between the sophisticated allure of the East and the freedom and earthy simplicity of the West.

Cather's writings are based largely on her early childhood experiences. Born in the Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, she moved with her family to Red Cloud, Nebraska, a market town among the state's vast prairie lands, when she was nine years old. Cather grew up among European-born ranchers and farmers. She recognized the harshness of the immigrants' life-style and witnessed the development of their children into an imaginative new generation of Americans with dreams of a life rich in the arts: she would eventually incorporate into her fiction both the stoicism and the ambitions of the body of people with whom she matured.

After graduating from the University of Nebraska in 1895, Cather moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she worked as a journalist, editor, and teacher. In 1906 she accepted a position as editor of McClure's magazine in New York City. Having spent more than a decade nurturing her literary aspirations in her spare time, Cather realized by 1911 that she needed to devote more of her time and energy to writing in order to reach her creative potential. That year, at the urging of her friend Jewett, she resigned her post at McClure's, forsaking journalism for a career as a full-time writer.

While Cather is known primarily for her novels, her first published work was a volume of poetry titled April Twilights. The 1903 collection prefigures the themes of human struggle, unrealized potential, the search for self, and a retreat to the past that would color the author's later fiction, but many critics have agreed that Cather's sentiments are not best expressed in verse.

Cather's second publication, a collection of short fiction titled The Troll Garden, appeared in 1905. The volume's stories are written in tightly woven, lyrical prose, foreshadowing the graceful and economic style that would become the author's trademark. Each story in The Troll Garden features an artist or a character of artistic temperament, and several of the selections are set against the backdrop of a raw prairie.

Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge, was not a critical success. Originally composed while Cather was still an editor at McClure's but not published until 1912, the slim book tells of bridge builder Bartley Alexander, a married man in love with a London actress. After deciding to leave his wife for his other love, Alexander is called to inspect a bridge being constructed over the St. Lawrence River. Like Alexander's character, the bridge is flawed; it falls during the inspection, carrying the man to his death. Though critics conceded that it was well constructed, Alexander's Bridge was faulted for its overly contrived plot.

Cather expressed little satisfaction with Alexander's Bridge and reportedly regarded her next work of fiction, O Pioneers! , as her first fully realized novel. The product of two of Cather's earlier short works, O Pioneers! focuses on Alexandra Bergson, the strong and determined daughter of a Swedish immigrant. Left to carry on her father's struggle against the harsh prairie lands of the West, the industrious Alexandra fights to keep her family together and sacrifices her youth and beauty to a lifetime of hard labor. While the story ends with Alexandra's eventual success and happiness in her later years with a man worthy of her love, a majority of critics have suggested that the novel gains most of its emotional thrust from a narrative digression involving duplicitous lovers.

Cather's next novel, The Song of the Lark, established several stylistic and thematic trends that would dominate her later works. The story turns on Thea Kronborg's rise to fame in the operatic world. The daughter of a Swedish preacher, young and vibrant Thea lives with her family in the small and uninspired town of Moonstone, Colorado. Her affinity for music and fascination with the world of art lead her to study music in Chicago. Following rigorous training in the city, the aspiring soprano retreats to the Southwest for a summer to reflect on the course of her life. Surrounded by the timeless, serene desert--a rich repository of native American artifacts--Thea contemplates the meaning of art. While bathing in a stream below an ancient cliff dwelling, she finds a piece of broken Indian pottery and, in studying it, derives a view of art in general: "The stream and the broken pottery: what was art but an effort to make a sheath, a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself?" The novel ends with Thea's triumph as an opera star.

My Antonia, Cather's 1918 novel, is widely regarded among the author's finest works. Reminiscent of the earlier prairie novel O Pioneers!, My Antonia tells the story of Bohemian immigrant farm girl Antonia Shimerda, a heroic character who has become a literary archetype for the Earth Mother. Narrator Jim Burden, neighbor to the Shimerdas, grows up with Antonia and chronicles her family's struggles to establish themselves on the Nebraska plains. The two characters share a love of the heart which is never expressed physically. Jim goes away to college and studies the classics; Antonia becomes involved with a railroad worker who impregnates and abandons her. The heroine has her baby and eventually finds happiness with a Czechoslovakian farmer named Cuzak. Years later, Jim--now a lawyer in the East--returns to Nebraska to find Antonia physically aged and weary, but exultant in her happy marriage and her many children. In an article for Literary Review, T. K. Whipple declared that Antonia's ultimate contentment proves Cather's "world is tragic ... but not futile."

In My Antonia, Cather once again expresses an almost obsessive longing for the past, this time through the character of Antonia's father. Homesick for his native land, Mr. Shimerda despairs and shoots himself.

For the four years between 1918 and 1922, Cather published only two works, a volume of short stories titled Youth and the Bright Medusa and a novel, One of Ours. The Youth and the Bright Medusa collection, published in 1920, borrowed largely from stories previously printed in The Troll Garden, but also contained several newly anthologized selections, including the critically acclaimed "Coming, Aphrodite! " Four years after the release of My Antonia, Cather finally completed her fifth novel, in 1922. The central character, Claude Wheeler, is a virtuous youth who lives in an increasingly materialistic and prosperous Nebraska. Disillusioned by the deteriorating values of his family, he enlists in the armed forces and dies in battle during World War I. Reviewers felt that Cather's treatment of the Nebraska scenes approached the quality of her best work, but they also alleged that Cather oversimplified the war. Despite such criticism, One of Ours earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1922.

Cather's next novel, A Lost Lady, garnered greater praise. Published in 1923, A Lost Lady chronicles the death of an era. Following an accident that leaves her once-powerful husband, Captain Forrester, an invalid, Marian Forrester begins a gradual process of moral degeneration. She longs for a life of culture, wealth, and sophistication, an existence that seems unattainable in the face of her husband's condition. Instead of turning her back on the petty bourgeois world of the present, Marian succumbs to its demands, taking refuge in the false comforts of alcohol and sexual abandon.

Perhaps the most powerful expression of Cather's disillusionment with the modern world is her 1925 novel The Professor's House. Having earned a prestigious literary prize for his multi-volume history of the Spanish in North America, Professor Godfrey St. Peter finds himself weary and uninspired. The completion of the enormous composition leaves him without a focal point for his creative energies. St. Peter's wife sets out to furnish an ostentatious new house with the professor's prize money. Reflecting on the materialistic nature of his family and society at large, St. Peter begins to reminisce about a former student, Tom Outland, who had died in the war. At this point in the story, the narrative breaks to accommodate an account of young Tom's pursuits prior to enrolling at the professor's college, including his discovery of prehistoric cliff dwellings in Colorado and his unsuccessful efforts to secure their preservation. The story then returns to St. Peter, who emerges from a near death experience with a new resolve to go on living.

Cather followed The Professor's House with her most inflammatory fiction, My Mortal Enemy , about a selfish, embittered, old woman who--looking back on a life lacking monetary prosperity--mourns the day she married for love. The author's next novel, Death Comes for the Archbishop, emphasizes the very contentment and tranquility that was missing in My Mortal Enemy. Set in mid- nineteenth-century New Mexico, the episodic story is a fictionalization of the life and achievements of Archbishop Lamy, the territory's first appointed bishop. The novel spans more than four decades in the lives of the archbishop and his vicar. Death Comes for the Archbishop earned substantial acclaim for its evocations of the Southwest, and it remains one of Cather's most widely read works.

Shadows on the Rock, published in 1932, marks a further retreat into the past, this time to late-seventeenth-century Quebec. Focusing on one year in the lives of a widowed apothecary and his twelve-year-old daughter, the novel is regarded less for its dramatic action than for its lush descriptive passages and depiction of life along the St. Lawrence River. The book was written at a particularly difficult period in the author's life, following her father's death and the grave illness of her mother. Critics have suggested that Cather--craving stability during trying times--set Shadows on the Rock in Quebec because of the city's consistent resistance to change.

Cather's 1932 short story collection Obscure Destinies enunciates familiar themes of tradition and retrospection through three stories set in the Midwest. The most famous of these, a selection titled "Old Mrs. Harris, " concerns three generations of women in Nebraska. Cather based the characters on her experiences in Red Cloud living with her mother and grandmother. Absorbed in their own lives, the two younger women fail to appreciate Mrs. Harris until after her death. Cather's portrait of isolation and aging was widely praised and, together with "Paul's Case, " ranks with her best short fiction.

In 1935 Cather published another novel, Lucy Gayheart, which turns on the relationship between young pianist Lucy Gayheart and married baritone Clement Sebastian. Lucy and Clement fall in love, but, following a European summer concert tour, Clement accidentally drowns. After months of remorse and mourning, Lucy vows to resume her career in music; then, while skating on an ice- covered river, she falls through and drowns as well. Although Lucy Gayheart sold well, many critics faulted its predictability and oversentimentality.

Cather's final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, was published in 1940. Based on an actual event, the story recounts a young girl's arduous life as a slave during the Civil War. Touching on issues of miscegenation, sexual exploitation, jealousy, and racism, the novel earned praise as a provocative, accomplished work.

In an essay from the 1936 collection Not Under Forty titled "The Novel Demeuble, " Cather called her approach to the novel "unfurnished": "Out of the teeming, gleaming, stream of the present," she wrote, a novel "must select the eternal material of art." Commenting on the author's lifelong literary achievements, Daiches concluded: "She belongs to no school.... The heroic nostalgia that pursued her until the end first changed her from a minor imitator of James to a novelist of fierce originality and individuality, and from the moment she discovered herself with O Pioneers! she went her own way with remarkably little notice of her contemporaries. She developed a style both strong and supple, combining forthrightness with sensitivity: she was one of the least showy novelists of her time." Cather died of a massive cerebral hemorrhage on April 24, 1947, in her New York City apartment.

Scope and Content

The collection contains the manuscripts of "A likeness, " and "Prarie spring, " two poems from April twilight; galleys of Books II and III of Lucy Gayheart; page proofs of part 4, Book I ( "A bell and a miracle ") and parts 1 & 2, Book II ( "The white mules, ""The lonely road to Mora ") of Death comes for the Archbishop.

In letters Cather discusses her travels, family and friends, her work as editor for McClure's magazine her health, her current activities, her reading, and her writing. There are also letters to admirers, students, and reviewers, and notes of thanks and sympathy.

Major topics in the correspondence include impressions of New Mexico; her friendship with Olive Fremstad; her work, especially on McClure's autobiography, an article on Ethelbert Nevin, the novels O Pioneers! Song of the lark, My Antonia, One of ours, Death comes for the Archbishop, and Sapphira and the slave girl; her inspirations for various characters and backgrounds; critical response to her work; her critiques of the work of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant; and incorrect impressions of her by Ford Maddox Ford. A listing of the letters contains many notes by Elizabeth S. Sergeant on the contents.

The papers also contain clippings, photographs and articles including one by Rosemary and Stephen Vincent Bent.

Among the correspondents are William Valentine Alexander, Henry Walcott Boynton, William Stanley Beaumont Braithwaite, Cyril Clemens, Perceval Gibbon, William Lucius Graves, Will Owen Jones, Orson Lowell, Carrie Miner Louise Pound, Violo Roseboro', Zo Akins Rumbold, Louise Stegner, Harvey Taylor, Henry Chester Tracy, and Josephine and Pauline Goldmark.

Arrangement

The collection is arranged in six series. Series I, Literary Manuscripts is arranged alphabetically by title or first line. Series II: Galley Proofs and Page Proofs, is arranged alphabetically by title. Series III, Correspondence is arranged alphabetically by surname of the author. Series IV: Miscellaneous Documents, Printed Matter, is arranged chronologically. Series V: Photographs, Etchings, Busts. Series VI: Uncollected Published Works, in sub-arranged as fiction and non-fiction, both of which are arranged chronologically.

Contents List

Series I: Literary Manuscripts

Box-folder 4:5
"A Chance Meeting " [1932-1933]

TMsS, 23 pp.; with autograph corrections

Cather gives an account of her meeting, in a hotel in Aix, with a striking and energetic elderly woman whom she eventually discovers to be Caroline Franklin Grout, the 84-year old niece of Gustave Flaubert. #6494-ab

Given by Murray Nimmo in honor of Gregg Ross Hopkins.
Box-folder 1:1
"A Likeness " n.d.

AMsS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:2
"The Avignon Story " ca. 1946

AMs fragment, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Fragment of the last unpublished novel, Hard Punishments ; with 2 transcriptions; "Presented to Clifton Waller Barrett aetat. 80 - 1 June 1981 by the University of Virginia Library." #6494-j
Box-folder 4:6
"Old Mrs. Harris " [1931?]

TMsS, 72 pp.; ribbon copy, with autograph corrections and extensive inserted blocks of text.

One of the three stories comprising Obscure Destinies, was first serialized under the title "Three Women. "#6494-ab

Given by Murray Nimmo in honor of Gregg Ross Hopkins.
Box-folder 1:3
Sapphira and the Slave Girl ca. 1937

AMs fragment, 7 pp. on 4 l.

Includes variant draft endings of "Nancy and Till, " chapter 1; "Old Jezebel, " chapter 3; and mid-passage section of "Martin Colbert "; includes transcription by Sharon O'Brien. #6494-q
Box-folder 1:4
"Sunday on the Seine " ca. 1909

AM, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Electrostatic Copy. #6494-j

Series II: Galley Proofs and Page Proofs

Box-folder 1:5
Death Comes for the Archbishop [1927 January]

corrected page proofs, 12 pp on 12 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:6
Lucy Gayheart 1934 December 3

corrected galley proof, 30 pp. on 30 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b

Series III: Correspondence

Box-folder 1:7
Manley M. Aaron to Groff Conklin 1929 November 8

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:8
Mary Virginia Auld to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 December 17

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 1:9
Mary Virginia Ault to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 December 23

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 1:10
[George Austerman] to Willa Cather 1933 September 22

TL carbon, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-t
Box-folder 1:11
[George Austerman] to Willa Cather 1940 May 9

TL carbon, 2 p. on 2 l.

#6494-t
Box-folder 1:12
Sarah J. Bloom to George Austerman 1938 January 31

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 1:13
Sarah J. Bloom to George and Eleanor Austerman 1940 December 20

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-t
Box-folder 1:14
City Editor, Omaha Daily News to Willa Cather 1924 January 12

Telegram, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 1:15
Ellen Burn to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 May 9

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

Postage stamp within envelope. #6494-r
Box-folder 1:16
Charles F. and Virginia Cather to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 December 18

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 1:17
Elsie M. Cather to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1924 January 5

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 1:18
1899 January 11

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:19
Willa Cather to William V. Alexander 1899 November 25

1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:20
Willa Cather to William V. Alexander 1900 January 17

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:21
Willa Cather to William V. Alexander 1900 February 29

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:22
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones 1900 September 29

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:23
Willa Cather to William V. Alexander 1901 February 21

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:24
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones [1903] January 2

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:25
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones 1903 May 7

ALS, 3 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:26
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones 1904 March 6

TLS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:27
Willa Cather to Otto Lichtenberg 1905 February 2

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:28
Willa Cather to "My Dear Father" [Charles Cather] [1906 December 17]

4 pp. on 4 l.

Photocopy. #6494-l
Box-folder 1:29
Willa Cather to William L. Graves 1906 December 17

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-a
Box-folder 1:30
Willa Cather to Perceval Gibbon 1909 February 2

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:31
Willa Cather to James B. Pinker 1909 February 20

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:32
Willa Cather to Orson Lowell 1909 November 15

TLS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:33
Willa Cather to Osborn Lowell 1909 November 18

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:34
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant 1910 January 26

2pp. on 2 l.

Photostat, with photostat of note. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:35
Cather to Elizabeth Sargent [i.e.Sergeant] 1910 April 5

2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:36
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant 1910 May 31

TLS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:37
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant 1910 July 6

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:38
Willa Cather to Sara Teasdale 1911 May 4

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-v
Box-folder 1:39
Willa Cather to Louise Pound 1911 May 9

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:40
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1911 June 4]

ALS, 4 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:41
Willa Cather to Louise Pound 1911 June 6

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:42
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant 1911 June 27

ALS, 4 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:43
Willa Cather to William Stanley Braithwaite 1911 June 29

TLS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:44
Willa Cather to Miss Goldmark [1911 ?] "Thursday"

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:45
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1911 ?] "Friday"

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:46
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1912 March 1]

ALS, 8 pp. on 7 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:47
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1912 March 2]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:48
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912 March 13]

ALS, 5 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:49
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912 March 28]

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:50
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth] Sergeant [1912] April 19

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Two copies. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:51
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] April 20

ALS, 12 pp. on 9 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:52
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1912 April 26

ALS, 6 pp. on 5 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:53
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1912] May 2

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat; two copies. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:54
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912?] May 12

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat; two copies. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:55
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] May 21

ALS, 10 pp. on 10 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:56
Willa Cather to [unidentified] [1912 ?] May 30

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat; two copies. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:57
[Willa Cather] to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912 ?] June 2

APC, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat; two copies. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:58
[Willa Cather] to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] June 15

AL, 7 pp. on 5 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope; includes AMs poem with first line, "The flowers of day are dead--" [Cannot identify poem's title - TN]. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:59
Willa Cather to Louise Pound [1912] June 28

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:60
Willa Cather to [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] July 5

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Includes TMs poem (two copies) with first line, "Evening and the flat land," with autograph notes and corrections. Published in April Twilight as "Prairie Spring. " Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:61
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] August 14

ALS, 3 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:62
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] September 12

ALS, 5 pp. on 5 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:63
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] October 6

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:64
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1912] December 7

ALS, 4 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:65
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913 January ?]

ALS, 7 pp. on 4 l.

Includes editorial note regarding correct date of correspondence; photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:66
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] February 2

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:67
Willa Cather to Mr. Phelps [1913?] February 11

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:68
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913 March ?]

ALS, 4 pp. on 3 l.

Includes editorial note regarding correct date of correspondence; photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:69
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] April 14

ALS, 5 pp. on 5 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:70
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] April 22

ALS, 6 pp. on 6 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:71
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] April 28

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:72
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] July 4

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:73
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913 August 5]

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Includes photostat clipping, "The Book of the Week," regarding O Pioneers ; photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:74
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913 August ?]

ALS, 4pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6464-b
Box-folder 1:75
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1913 September 12

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:76
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] September 22

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:76A
Willa Cather to Sara Teasdale 1913 September 30

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope

#6494-y
Box-folder 1:77
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1913 October 11

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:78
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1913] November 19

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:79
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [ca. 1912-1913?] October 31

ALS, 4 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 1:80
Willa Cather to Will Owen Jones [1914] May 29

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:81
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 February 13]

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:82
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1914 February 24

ALS, 3 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:83
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 March 2]

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:84
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1914 March 19

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:85
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 April 30]

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Includes editorial note regarding correct date of correspondence; photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:86
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914] May 26

ALS, 6 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:87
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 June 23]

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:88
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914] August 10

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:89
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant 1914 September 11

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:90
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 September 28]

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:91
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914 November 13]

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 1:92
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1914] December 5

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:1
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1915] June 27

ALS, 6 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:2
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1915] July 28

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:3
Willa Cather to Miss E[lizabeth] S. Sergeant [1915] August 20

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:4
Willa Cather to Elizabeth Sergeant [1915] August 31

APCS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:5
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1915] September 21

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:6
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones 1915 October 29

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:7
Willa Cather to [H. W. ?] Boynton 1915 December 6

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:8
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1915] December 7

ALS, 3 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:9
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1916] August 3

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:10
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1916?] November 13

ALS, 6pp. on 4 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:11
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1917?] June 23

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:12
Willa Cather to Carrie Minor [1917] October 29

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:13
[Willa Cather] to [Elizabeth Sergeant] [ca. 1917 ?]

AL fragment, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Originally filed with August 3, 1916 letter from Cather to Sergeant; "Information about place and McClung marriage indicates letter is 1917." [P. Yongue?]; photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:14
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1918] December 3

ALS, 5 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:15
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones 1919 May 20

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:16
Willa Cather to Viola [Roseboro'] [1919] June 5

ALS, 4 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:17
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1920 ?] August 22

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:18
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins], [1920?] September 14

ALS, 3 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:19
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1920?] October 22

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:20
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1920 November 19

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:21
Willa Cather to Miss Emig [1920?] December 8

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-x
Box-folder 2:22
Willa Cather to Mr. Conklin [ca. 1920?]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:23
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1920?]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:24
Willa Cather to Mrs. Stanfield [1921 January 6]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:25
Willa Cather to Mrs. [C.] Stanfield 1921 June 12 [i.e. June 11]

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:26
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1921?] July 6

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:27
Willa Cather to "Dear Doctor" [Dr. Tyndale] [1921] September 21

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Cather's note inscribed at bottom of copy of telegram from Alfred Knopf; includes transcription and researcher's note. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:28
Willa Cather to Mr. Jones [1921?] October 1

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:29
Willa Cather to Mrs. Stanfield [1922 June 10]

ALS, 4 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:30
Willa Cather to Henry Chester Tracy 1922 June 22

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-i
Box-folder 2:31
Willa Cather to Mr. [Maurice?] [1922?] July 30

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:32
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1922] October 4

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat with photostat envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:33
Willa Cather to Duncan M. Vishonhaler 1922 October 20

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:34
Willa Cather to Mr. Johns 1922 November 17

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494
Box-folder 2:35
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones [1922] December 6

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:36
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1922?] December 6

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:37
Willa Cather to Mr. Pitts Sanborn [1923 March 2]

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

"Cather recovering from influenza at Lakehurst, NJ winter of 1923." #6494-b
Box-folder 2:38
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 May 23

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:39
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 July 28

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:40
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 August 1

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

Includes an enclosure, "Léon Bakst et les Décors de 'Phædra.' "#6494-r
Box-folder 2:41
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 August 27

ALS, 5 pp. on 3 l. with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:42
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 September 6

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:43
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 September 21

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:44
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler [1923] November 9

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:45
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 December 10

TLS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections and autograph last paragraph. #6494-r
Box-folder 2:46
Willa Cather to Mr. Liveright [1923] December 18

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:47
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1923 December 19

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

Autograph postscript signed. #6494-r
Box-folder 2:48
Willa Cather to City Editor, Omaha Daily News 1924 January 12

Telegram, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:49
Willa Cather to Judge [Duncan M.] Vishonhaler 1924 January 13

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 2:50
Willa Cather to Mrs. Stanfield [1924 March 3]

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:51
Willa Cather to Frederic Melcher 1924 May 29

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections. #11082-b
Box-folder 2:52
Willa Cather to Mrs. Stanfield [1924?] September 4

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:53
Willa Cather to Miss Lane 1925 December 21

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:54
Willa Cather to Mr. Glick 1925 March 20

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:55
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1925?] May 9

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:56
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1925?] June 23

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:57
Willa Cather to Charlotte Stanfield [1926] October 16

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l., with envelope.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:58
Willa Cather to Mr. [Will Owen?] Jones [1927] March 22

TLS, 3 pp. on 3 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:59
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones [1927] June 26

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:60
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1927 September 13]

ALS, 3 pp. on 3 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:61
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1928?] July 8

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:62
Willa Cather to Mr. Goodman 1928 September 26

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:63
Willa Cather to Mr. [Stringfellow] Barr 1928 December 5

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#7436, -a through -f
Box-folder 2:64
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1928?] December 31

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:65
Willa Cather to Father [Malone] [ca. 1928]

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494
Box-folder 2:66
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1929?] October 2

ALS, 3 pp. on 3 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:67
Willa Cather to Mr. Vance 1929 November 14

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:68
Willa Cather to George Austerman 1930 September 14

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:69
Willa Cather to Eleanor Austerman 1930 December 28

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:70
Willa Cather to Miss Goldmark 1931 March 3

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:71
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1931 June 21]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:72
Willa Cather to Mr. Wilcox [1931] August 10

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-g
Box-folder 2:73
Willa Cather to Mr. Meromichey 1931 October 5

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:74
Willa Cather to George Austerman 1931 October 20

TLS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:75
Willa Cather to Mr. Flower 1932 May 25

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-u
Box-folder 2:76
Willa Cather to Huxton Marley 1932 August 21

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-aa
Box-folder 2:77
Willa Cather to Dr. Merores 1933 January 16

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-f
Box-folder 2:78
Willa Cather to Harvey Taylor 1933 January 16

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:79
Willa Cather to Mr. Mason 1933 May 21

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:80
Willa Cather to George Austerman [1933] September 2

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:81
Willa Cather to George Austerman 1933 September 19

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:82
Willa Cather to George and Eleanor Austerman 1933 December

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With photocopy of frontispiece for "December Night: A Scene from Willa Cather's Novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. " Photocopy. #6494-t
Box-folder 2:83
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1933 December]

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With photocopy of frontispiece for "December Night: A Scene from Willa Cather's Novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. " Photocopy. #6494-t
Box-folder 2:84
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1934 January 27

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:85
Willa Cather to George Austerman [1934?] August 26

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:86
Willa Cather to Mary [E. A. Creighton] [1934?]

ALS, 8 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:87
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1935 January 10

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:88
Willa Cather to [Cyril] Clemons [1935] June 15

ANS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:89
Willa Cather to George Austerman [1935] December 3

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 2:90
Willa Cather to Dr. Leech 1935 December 7

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph postscript. #6494-b
Box-folder 2:91
Willa Cather to Pat [Alfred A. Knopf, Jr.] 1936 January 19

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:92
Willa Cather to Mr. Dashiell 1936 March 9

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:93
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1936 April 30

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 2:94
Willa Cather to George and Eleanor Austerman 1936 May 16

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections and autograph note. #6494-t
Box-folder 3:1
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1936 December 11

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:2
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1937 January 30

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:3
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1937 April 9

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph postscript. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:4
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1937 September 27

TL dictation, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph note signed by Cyril Clemons at bottom of letter. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:5
Willa Cather to Mr. Clemons 1938 January 28

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:6
Willa Cather to George Austerman 1938 March 31

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:7
Willa Cather to George Austerman [1938] October 9

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:8
Willa Cather to Pat [Alfred A. Knopf, Jr.] [ca. 1939 ?] April 12

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:9
Willa Cather to Dr. May 1940 January 4

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

Includes transcription. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:10
Willa Cather to [Pendleton] Hogan 1940 February 5

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections. #10440
Box-folder 3:11
Willa Cather to George and Eleanor Austerman 1940 February 7

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:12
Willa Cather to the Head of the English Department, Mount Saint Mary's College 1940 February 7

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections and one typewritten page, "Willa Cather and Roman Catholicism." See also John J. Walsh correspondence, box 3 folders 66 and 67. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:13
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1940 November 9

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections and autograph note at bottom of letter. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:14
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1940 November 27

TL, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:15
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1940 November 28

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:16
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [Mrs. Hugo Rumbold] [1940] December 1

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:17
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1940 December 13

TL dictation, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:18
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1940 December 13

TL, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:19
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [Mrs. Hugo Rumbold] [ca. 1940]

ALS, 3 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:20
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1941 February 20

TL, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:21
Willa Cather to [Mary Willard] 1941 May 6

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:22
Willa Cather to Mrs. [Ackroyed] 1941 May 16

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph corrections and an attached note by Cather's secretary. #6494-c
Box-folder 3:23
Willa Cather to Mrs. Ackroyd 1941 December 27

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-c
Box-folder 3:24
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1942 August 29

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:25
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1942 December 18

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph last paragraph. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:26
Willa Cather to Zo [Akins] [1942] December 26

ANS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

Includes attached magazine clipping with autograph note on clipping. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:27
Willa Cather to Mrs. Field 1943 April 19

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:28
Willa Cather to Mary [E. A. Creighton] 1943 October 30

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

Autograph last paragraph; includes transcription; stamp previously removed from envelope. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:29
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1943 December 31

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:30
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1944?] February 5

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:31
Willa Cather to Miss Roseboro' 1944 February 12

TLS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph corrections. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:32
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] [1944?] March

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Includes researcher's note regarding date of correspondence. Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:33
Willa Cather to Mr. Halter 1945 May 24

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:34
Willa Cather to Doctor Garbat 1945 June 27

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-o
Box-folder 3:35
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1945 November 21

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

2 copies: one positive, one negative. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:36
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] 1946 August 16

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:37
Willa Cather to Eleanor Austerman 1947 January 16

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

With autograph corrections. #6494-t
Box-folder 3:38
Willa Cather to Father Maline 1947 March 3

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:39
Willa Cather to [Mrs. Fields] n.y. January 3

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:40
Willa Cather to Z. A. [Zo Akins] n.y. June 26

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:41
Willa Cather to Mr. Griffith n.y. October 29

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:42
Willa Cather to [Will Owen] Jones n.y. December 31

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:43
Willa Cather to Pat [Alfred A. Knopf, Jr.] n.d., "Saturday"

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:44
Willa Cather to Miss Chapin n.d.

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Includes transcription at bottom of letter. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:45
Willa Cather to George Austerman n.d.

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:46
Willa Cather to Miss Simon n.d., "Sunday"

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-s
Box-folder 3:47
Willa Cather to Mrs. Mellen n.d.

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:48
Willa Cather to "Dear, Kind Ladies" [Dr. Stacy and Dr. Moench] n.d.

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

Includes researcher's note regarding correct spelling of "Moench." #6494-d
Box-folder 3:49
Willa Cather to Doctor [Moench] n.d.

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-d
Box-folder 3:50
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] n.d.

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:51
Willa Cather to Elsie [Elizabeth Sergeant] n.d.

ALS, 4 pp. on 4 l.

Photostat. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:52
Albert D. Donovan to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 November 26

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:53
Gilbert Monell Hitchcock to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 August 6

ALS, 7 pp. on 7 l., with envelope.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:54
Pendleton Hogan to Mrs. Alfred A. Knopf 1949 December 6

TLS carbon, 1 p. on 1 l.

#10440
Box-folder 3:55
Miguel Lamy to Cyril Clemons n.d.

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:56
O. K. Liveright to Willa Cather 1923 December 17

TL, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:57
O.K. Liveright to Willa Cather 1923 December 18

TL, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:58
S. S. McClure to Osborn Lowell 1909 November 18

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:59
Margaret Badollet Shotwell to Leon Bakst 1923 August 15

TLS, 1 p. on 1 l.

With enclosure. #6494-r
Box-folder 3:60
Louise [Stegner] to [unidentified] 1940 April 10

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l.

Regarding Mrs. Alice [Gaudy], Willa Cather's high school Latin teacher. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:61
Stephen Tennant to George Austerman 1939 August 1

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:62
Julius Hilgard Tyndale to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler 1923 September 11

ALS, 2 pp. on 2 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:63
[Duncan M. Vinsonhaler] to [Willa Cather] [1923 August]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:64
[Duncan M. Vinsonhaler] to [Willa Cather] [1923 December]

AL copy, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:65
[Duncan M. Vinsonhaler] to [Willa Cather] n.d.

AL copy, 4 pp. on 4 l.

#6494-r
Box-folder 3:66
John J. Walsh to Willa Cather [ca. 1940?]

ALS, 1 p. on 1 l.

See Willa Cather letter, 1940 February 7. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:67
John J. Walsh to Willa Cather [ca. 1940?]

ALS, 3 pp. on 2 l.

See Willa Cather letter, 1940 February 7. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:68
Thornton Wilder to George Austerman 1940 August 15

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t
Box-folder 3:69
Thornton Wilder to George Austerman 1940 September 3

ALS, 2 pp. on 1 l., with envelope.

#6494-t

Series IV: Miscellaneous Documents, Printed Matter

Box-folder 3:70
Receipt signed by Willa Cather for payment of poem, "The Night Express "1902 April 26

ADS, 1 item.

#5284
Box-folder 3:71
Willa Cather's comments on a book's binding [ Alexander's Bridge ] n.d.

ANS, 1 p. on 1 l.

#6494-w
Box-folder 3:72
Carbon typescript of review from "New York Sun " of My Antonia [1918] October 6

AD, 2 pp. on 2 l.

With autograph corrections. [no accession number]
Box-folder 3:73
"Paper Dolls or People, " review of My Antonia 1919 April 12

printed, 1 item.

Reprinted from "The Chicago Daily News ". #6494-b
Box-folder 3:74
"Willa Cather: Civilized and Very American " 1940 December 15

newspaper clipping, 1 item.

From "New York Herald Tribune Books ". #6494-b
Box-folder 3:75
"The Literary Spotlight by Fanny Butcher " 1949 September 25

newspaper clipping, 2 items.

Review of Willa Cather on Writing . #6494-b
Box-folder 3:76
Newspaper clippings regarding Willa Cather n.d.

Printed, 2 items.

#6494-c
Box-folder 3:77
Newspaper clippings: Willa Cather obituaries 1947 April

Printed, 2 items.

#6494-c
Box-folder 3:78
Miscellaneous news clippings/articles n.d.

"The Point of View Was Masculine, " review of Willa: The Life of Willa Cather by Phyllis C. Robinson. "Willa Cather: A Lady Lost and Found, " review of Willa Cather: Early Novels and Stories and Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice by Sharon O'Brien. "Stamp Honors Famed Novelist Willa Cather. ""Willa Cather: Her Artistry Endures in a Different Age. ""An Epic Vision of Nebraska, " review of Willa: The Life of Willa Cather by Phyllis C. Robinson. "Bakst. ""Painfully Becoming Herself, " review of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice . "Musical Menuhins to Pay Homage to Willa. "#6494-r

Series V: Photographs, Etchings, Busts

Box-folder 3:79
Photograph of Elsie Cather as a child with Marjorie Anderson (Cather family servant) in Red Cloud, Nebraska n.d.

1 item.

Photograph by Wegmann. #6494-c
Box-folder 3:80
Autographed photograph of Willa Cather, seated, inscribed to the Rev. Delos W. O'Brian n.d.

1 item.

8 x 10 black and white photograph. #6494-e
Box-folder 3:81
Autographed printed photograph of Willa Cather, inscribed "Cordially Yours, Willa Cather" n.d.

1 item.

#6494-z
Box-folder 3:82
Autographed photograph of Willa Cather, inscribed "Cordially Yours, Willa Cather" n.d.

1 item.

Matted photograph. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:83
Autographed photograph of Willa Cather, signed twice: top right corner and bottom n.d.

1 item.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:84
Autographed photograph of Willa Cather, inscribed "For Philip de Navarro" n.d.

1 item.

Inscribed line from Cather's poem, "A Likeness. " With 5x7 black and white reproduction and 9x12 negative print copy. #6494
Box-folder 3:85
Autographed photograph of Willa Cather and [Duncan Vinsonhaler?] 1923 October

1 item.

Inscribed "For Duncan M. Vinsonhaler from his friend Willa Cather." Mounted 8 x 10 black and white photograph. #6494-r
Box-folder 3:86
Photograph of Willa Cather, seated, in velvet dress n.d.

1 item.

Formerly laid in J. Huneker's book, Painted Veils . #6494-p
Box-folder 3:87
Photograph of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

Photograph by Nicholas Muray, New York. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:87a
Photograph of [Willa Cather?] n.d.

1 item.
Box-folder 3:88
Newspaper clipping of photograph of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

Photograph by Nicholas Muray, New York. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:89
Photograph of a black crayon portrait of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

Crayon portrait by Nicolai Fehin. Copyright belongs to Dr. Paul M. Beigelman, 46 rue de l'Universite, 75007 Paris, France. Original in the possession of Los Angeles County Museum of Art. #10462-c
Box-folder 3:90
Postcard of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

#7267-a
Box-folder 3:91
Magazine clipping: photograph of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

Glued onto 5 x 7 index card. Includes photocopy of 20 slides from Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial, Red Cloud, Nebraska. Barrett Prints Reference Collection.
Box-folder 3:92
Photograph of etching of Willa Cater by Richard Hood n.d.

1 item.

Original framed etching in Oversize Box O-1. #6494-k
Box-folder 3:93
Photograph of Willa Cather's childhood home, Willow Shade, Virginia n.d.

1 item.

See Willa Cather letter dated May 16, 1941. #6494-c
Box-folder 3:94
Photograph of Willa Cather's home in Red Cloud, Nebraska n.d.

1 item.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:95
Willa Cather's home in Red Cloud, Nebraska n.d.

2 items.

Original charcoal drawing, mounted on board, with accompanying photograph of the drawing

#7267
Box-folder 3:96
Magazine clipping: photograph of Willa Cather n.d.

1 item.

#6494-b
Box-folder 3:97
Magazine clipping: photograph of Willa Cather by Steichen n.d.

1 item.

Includes brief description of Cather's work below photograph. #6494-b
Box-folder 3:98
Magazine clipping: photograph of Willa Cather [ca. 1927 July]

1 item.

Removed from Vanity Fair Magazine . #6494
Box-folder 3:99
Photographs of Willa Cather bust by Paul Swan n.d.

6 items.

#10560
Box-folder 3:100
Photograph of actor George Arliss n.d.

1 item.

Inscribed and signed to Willa Cather by George Arliss. #6494-m
Box-folder 3:101
Plaster cast bust of Willa Cather by Paul Swan n.d.

1 item.

Made from the original bust displayed at the State Capitol in Lincoln, Nebraska, 26" high. Located in Barrett Room. #10560

Series VI: Uncollected Published Works

Photocopies of Willa Cather's "uncollected" published works, assembled in two volumes by James B. Meriwether, Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, "to assist me in teaching a graduate seminar."

Box-folder 4:1
"Eric Hermannson's Soul " April 1890

Printed, 13 pp.

from The Cosmopolitan . Photocopy. #6494-n
Box-folder 4:2
Volume I: Fiction [1896-1933]

1 volume.

p.1: "On the Divide, " from The Overland Monthly , January 1896, pp. 65-75. p.13: "El Dorado: A Kansas Recessional, " from New England Magazine , June 1901, pp. 357-369. p. 27: "The Namesake, " from McClure's , March 1907, pp. 492-497. p. 35: "The Profile, " from McClure's , June 1907, pp. 135-141. p. 43: "The Willing Muse, " from Century magazine, August 1907, pp. 550-557. p. 51: "Eleanor's House, " from McClure's , October 1907, pp. 623-630. p. 59: "On the Gulls' Road, " from McClure's , December 1908, pp. 145-152. p. 67: "The Joy of Nelly Deane, " from Century magazine, October 1911, pp. 859-866. p. 77: "Behind the Singer Tower, " from Collier's magazine, May 1912, pp. 16-20. p. 83: "The Bohemian Girl, " from McClure's , August 1912, pp. 420-443. p. 107: "Consequences, " from McClure's , November 1915. p. 115: "The Bookkeeper's Wife, " from Century magazine, May 1916, pp. 51-59. p. 125: "Ardessa, " from Century magazine, May 1918, pp. 105-116. p. 137: "Uncle Valentine, " from Women's Home Companion , February 1925. p. 151: "The Story of Pavel and Peter " (from My Antonia ), from The Golden Book , May 1933, pp. 459-460. p. 153: "Jack-a-Boy, " from T he Saturday Evening Post , March 1901. p. 157: "The Professor's Commencement, " from New England Magazine , June 1902, pp. 481-488. p. 165: "The Treasure of Far Island, " from New England Magazine , October 1902, pp. 234-249. #6494-n
Box-folder 4:3
"The House on Charles Street " 1922 November 4

1 item, 2 pp.

from The Literary Review . Photocopy. #6494-n
Box-folder 4:4
Volume II: Non-Fiction [1891-1923]

1 volume.

p. 1: "Concerning Thomas Carlyle: Some of his personal characteristics, " from The Nebraska State Journal , March 1, 1891, p. 14. p. 3: "The Personal Side of William Jennings Bryan, " from The Prairie Schooner , date not noted [post July 1900], pp. 331-336, reprinted from the Library (Pittsburg, PA), July 14, 1900, where it appeared under the pen name Henry Nicklemann. p. 9: "When I Knew Stephen Crane, " from The Prairie Schooner , date not noted [post July 1900], pp. 231-236, reprinted from the Library (Pittsburg, PA), June 23, 1900, where it appeared under the pen name Henry Nicklemann; it also appeared in the Lincoln Courier , July 14, 1900. p. 15: "The Man Who Wrote 'Narcissus,' " from The Ladies Home Journal , November 1900. p. 19: "Introduction to 'The Secrets of the Schluesselburg' by David Soskice, " from McClure's , December 1909, pp. 144-145. p. 21: "Plays of Real Life, " from McClure's , March 1913, pp. 63-72. p. 31: "Training for the Ballet, " from McClure's , October 1913, pp. 85-95. p. 43: "Three American Singers: Louise Homer, G. Farrar, Olive Frenstad, " from McClure's , December 1913, pp. 33-48. #6494-n