Will be going abroad soon, so can't judge contest. Willa Cather [Stout #1094]
Sorry not to have replied sooner to thank him for sending Miss Hazen's letter about My Ántonia. She is a keen analyst. Willa Cather [Stout #1166]
Glad to accept the medal of the International Mark Twain Society. Is proud to think, as Albert Bigelow Paine reports in his biography, that Mark Twain expressed admiration of one of her poems [later letter says "The Palatine"]. P.S.: Sorry to be slow responding, but is just back from northern Canada [?]. Willa Cather [Stout #1208]
Doesn't know when she will be in the West, probably not until next winter. Has lost her copy of article about My Ántonia written for Mark Twain Society. Could he provide the name of the woman who wrote it? Willa Cather [Stout #1211]
Thanks for the copy of Miss Hazen's article. No, has not become a Catholic, though admires the Church and contrary to her Episcopal bishop, believes it the source of all Christian churches. Glad to hear of the postage stamp honoring Mark Twain. Willa Cather [Stout #1212]
Once met a Russian violinist who said he would greatly like to see the Mississippi River. He grew up near the Volga and had read Huckleberry Finn in translation as a boy and wondered if the Mississippi was like the Volga. Hard to imagine how the regional colloquialism of the book could be translated into Russian. But the book has enough vitality to shine through even botched language. [Stout #1213]
Will not be able to go to St. Louis for the dinner. Still loves Huckleberry Finn as much as ever. Medal can safely be sent to her. Willa Cather [Stout #1240]
Very glad to receive the Mark Twain medal and his account of the dinner. Willa Cather [Stout #1248]
Sorry to have been unable to write sooner. Willa Cather [Stout #1265]
Has just returned from West Coast and found his letter. Would be glad to have the booklet on Housman dedicated to her, but imagines it has already been published by now. Enjoyed reading the Housman issue of the Quarterly. Has he seen the drawing of Housman in William Archer's Modern English Poets? [Probably Archer's Poets of the Younger Generation, 1902.] Willa Cather [Stout #1305]
