• Letter ID: 0303
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-05-10
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  May 10, [1915], from New York ; Harvard 

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]

• Letter ID: 0304
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-05-12
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  May 12, [1915], from New York ; Harvard 

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]

• Letter ID: 0306
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-05-18
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  May 18, [1915], from New York ; Harvard 

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

• Letter ID: 0318
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-08-03
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Aug. 3, [1915], from Pittsburgh ; Harvard 

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

• Letter ID: 0326
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-10-27
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Oct. 27, [1915], from Pittsburgh ; Harvard 

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]

• Letter ID: 0329
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1915-10-30
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Oct. 30, [1915], from Pittsburgh ; Harvard 

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]

• Letter ID: 0382
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1917-03-08
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Mar. 8, 1917 from New York ; Harvard 

Has set aside "The Blue Mesa" to work on a novel with western setting about the same length as O Pioneers!. Is about half through the first draft. How late could she get manuscript in to have a fall publication date? May have it by end of May or middle of June. If a fall publication this year not possible, will probably set it aside and do more stories. Reynolds can get $700 each for them.   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #382]

• Letter ID: 0383
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1917-03-13
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Mar. 13, [1917] ; Harvard 

Will try to finish the manuscript in time for fall publication. Doesn't want illustrations unless she can find just the right person. Would like a cover of dark blue with perhaps a bright yellow jacket.   Willa Cather   [Stout #383]

• Letter ID: 0384
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1917-04-07
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Apr. 7, [1917], from New York ; Harvard 

Will be glad to help with Albertieri's book about dance, but doubts he will split the manuscript into two. Rather than the illustrators he suggested, believes Benda might do something for the new book.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #384]

• Letter ID: 0400
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1917-12-01
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Dec. 1, [1917], from New York ; Harvard 

Chose Benda to do pen-and-ink drawings after seeing his drawings for Jacob Riis's The Old Town, for which Macmillan paid him $900. Expected to have about a third as many for her book. Benda will not do what they had decided on for the amount Houghton Mifflin is offering. Might do something simpler and easier for that amount. Will work with him on some new ideas. Is cutting the book so it will be very little longer than O Pioneers!.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #400]

• Letter ID: 0402
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1917-12
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Sunday 9 [Dec., 1917] ; Harvard 

Sending two Benda drawings with size marked on the margins. Should be full page with wide margins, rather than tail-pieces. Print small on spacious page, all on recto, to give the effect of old wood cuts. Please send proofs of drawings when ready, as a guide to her and Benda in planning the rest.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #402]

• Letter ID: 0405
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1918-01-16
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Jan. 16, [1918], from New York ; Harvard 

Thanks for telling her about Miss Bishop [Ferris Greenslet's secretary]. Will expect her on Friday [the 18th].   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #405]

• Letter ID: 0433
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1918-09-23
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Sept. 23, [1918], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; Harvard 

Thanks for the proof of the ad. Glad he thinks the book looks good.   Willa Cather   [Stout #433]

• Letter ID: 0434
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1918-09-30
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Sept. 30, [1918], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; Harvard 

Yes, her copies have arrived, but book shop in Red Cloud has not received its order. Likes the appearance of the volume, though she wishes the paper were a yellower cream color.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #434]

• Letter ID: 0435
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1918-10-03
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Oct. 3, [1918], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; Harvard 

Local book shop received only twelve copies out of an order of twenty-five and has sold out. Friends in Toronto [ Hambourgs ] report they can't get it there.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #435]

• Letter ID: 0444
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1918-12-08
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Dec. 8, [1918] ; Harvard 

Have copies been sent to New Republic and Bookman? What is the decision about Albertieri's book on dance?   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #444]

• Letter ID: 0496
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1920-02-16
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Feb. 16, [1920], from New York ; Harvard 

Brentano's has a good supply of Ántonia, after having been out for several weeks. Is Mr. Greenslet better?   Willa Cather   [Stout #496]

• Letter ID: 0499
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1920-02-21
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Feb. 21, [1920] ; Harvard 

Shocked that he would attribute the reports from Chicago to "investigators." They were people she knew. Will read Miss Singmaster's book when she can, but has seen many of her manuscripts in the past and they never had any particular interest.   Willa Cather   [Stout #499]

• Letter ID: 0540
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1921-04-14
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  Apr. 14, [1921], from Toronto ; Harvard 

Understands Sinclair Lewis is saying the kinds of things that may increase sales. Are her books available in the cities where he is lecturing?   Willa Cather   [Stout #540]

• Letter ID: 0592
• Addressee: Scaife, R. L.
• Date: 1914-05-02
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To R. L. Scaife,  May 2, [1914?], from New York ; Harvard 

Just found his letter about Mrs. Peattie's book. Will read it immediately and write something if they still want it. Got very behind in her work while in the hospital.   Willa S. Cather   [Stout #592]