A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather

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To R. L. ScaifeMay 10, [1915], from New YorkHarvard 

When will she receive proofs? Doesn't want to stop work on some stories and articles until there are enough proofs that she can stick with them.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #303]


To R. L. ScaifeMay 12, [1915], from New YorkHarvard 

Please have foreign words set in italics. Copyeditor didn't in O Pioneers!. Also names of operatic roles. Hopes he has a proofreader who is fluent in Spanish and someone who can check the German used in the music lessons.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #304]


To R. L. ScaifeMay 18, [1915], from New YorkHarvard 

Sending about half the corrected proofs to the press today. Please remember to provide three pulls of the galleys.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #306]


To R. L. ScaifeAug. 3, [1915], from PittsburghHarvard 

New cover is fine. Leaves for Durango on Friday [August 6]. Uncertain where she'll be the next few weeks.   Willa Cather   [Stout #318]


To R. L. ScaifeOct. 27, [1915], from PittsburghHarvard 

Stores in Lincoln say they are unable to get copies. One has never heard of the book or the poster either.   W. S. Cather   [Stout #326]


To R. L. ScaifeOct. 30, [1915], from PittsburghHarvard 

Thinks the ad is unexciting. Why not quote some of the really live statements in reviews? Has redone the ad proposing some other quotations. [Encloses example.] Has sent her Nation to Will Owen Jones for reprint.   Willa Cather   [Stout #329]


To Ferris GreensletNov. 1, [1915], from PittsburghHarvard 

Has written to McClure about providing a sketch, but he is away in Texas. Will try to write the article for Book News if he will send more specific instructions. Let Mr. Scaife know about the quotable reviews in the Boston Advertiser and the New Bedford Standard. P.S.: Wondering if it will be reviewed in the Atlantic.  Willa Cather   [Stout #330]


To Ferris GreensletNov. 20, 1915, from Pittsburgh, postcard ; Harvard 

Why not use [H. W.] Boynton's article in the New York Evening Post in place of the one he hoped to get from S. S. McClure?   W. S. Cather   [Stout #336]


To H. W. BoyntonDec. 6, 1915UVa 

Appreciates his understanding her purposes in the book. Was encouraged to undertake it by his review of Pioneers.   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #338]


To Ferris Greenslet,  Monday [Jan. 31, 1916?] Harvard 

Sending H. L. Mencken's article [in Smart Set January 1916?]. Has he seen Hugh Walpole's article in Bookman?   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #348]


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