• Letter ID: 1160
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1933-02
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  n.d. [Feb. 1933] ; UVt 

Will see her Thursday the 16th at four.   Willa   [Stout #1160]

• Letter ID: 1164
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1933-02
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  n.d. [Feb. 1933?] ; UVt 

No, please do not use the pictures. Such bad ones she's surprised Dorothy has kept them all this time.   W.   [Stout #1164]

• Letter ID: 1158
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1933-01/1933-02
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  n.d. [Jan. or Feb. 1933] ; UVt 

Would rather Dorothy write an article on her than anyone else [resulting in "Daughter of the Frontier," New York Herald Tribune, May 1933]. Tired of hearing she has sacrificed to art. Has always indulged herself by following likes and avoiding dislikes. Has luxuriated in a great deal of music. Has shut out people in general in order to devote herself to real friends.   Willa   [Stout #1158]

• Letter ID: 1148
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1933-01-11
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Jan. 11, [1933], from 570 Park Avenue, New York ; UVt 

So much to catch up on. Has taken an apartment with Edith. Hopes Dorothy will come to tea. Please see February Atlantic [ "A Chance Meeting" ]. Still remembers when she first read Flaubert in Red Cloud, and later with George Seibel in Pittsburgh. Has been able to save three farms in Nebraska by catching up their interest payments. So glad Dorothy likes "Old Mrs. Harris," a story that almost does what she set out to do in it.   Willa   [Stout #1148]

• Letter ID: 1074
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-10-02
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Oct. 2, [1931], from Grand Manan ; UVt 

Has lingered here, but will leave for Jaffrey or for New York next week. Will probably go west in November and spend Christmas in Red Cloud. Interested in Dorothy's comments on Ruth Suckow. Disliked her early work intensely, but will read the new book. Thanks for letter of condolence. Feeling displaced and lacking in purpose.   Willa   [Stout #1074]

• Letter ID: 1072
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-09
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  n.d. [Sept. 1931] , from Grand Manan ; UVt 

Mother died August 31. Could not get to the funeral. Staying here through September and then will go to be with Douglass. A strange feeling, being the "older generation."   Willa   [Stout #1072]

• Letter ID: 1069
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-08-14
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Aug. 14, [1931], from Grand Manan ; UVt 

Need to prevent outrageous project, even if it means their publishers have to buy off this Mr. Allan. Enjoying cool and quiet. Island very isolated. Carpenter who built their cottage thinks she is a newspaper writer. Mother weakening.   Willa   [Stout #1069]

• Letter ID: 1054
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-06-14
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Sunday [June 14, 1931] , from New York ; UVt 

Will go to Princeton tonight to receive honorary degree. Only feeling toward Shadows on the Rock is appreciation that it carried her through difficult time. Tried to capture reality of old life in Quebec. Jacques modeled on a nephew who still remembers how she pulled him uphill on his sled during the winter before father died, when he was five.   Willa   [Stout #1054]

• Letter ID: 1050
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-05-01
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  May 1, [1931], from Pasadena, Calif. ; UVt 

Mother was worse when she arrived, but somewhat better now. Speech completely gone. Brother Douglass still very devoted. Has finished page proofs of Shadows on the Rock. Working on it held her [Cather] together for five years. Will go away to Canada for hot part of summer.   Willa   [Stout #1050]

• Letter ID: 1032
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1931-01-13
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Jan. 13, [1931], from Grosvenor Hotel, New York ; UVt 

Will look forward to seeing her on the 20th.   Willa   [Stout #1032]

• Letter ID: 1027
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1930-12-01
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Dec. 1, [1930] ; UVt 

Likes her book [ The Deepening Stream ] very much, especially Morris and his wife. He is entirely real. Likes Adrian, too. All the Paris part quite wonderful, and Matey very good in that section. Earlier she is too fully specified. A mistake to try to tell all, as she did herself in The Song of the Lark. Proust succeeds in it, of course, but that's in the first person. Writers ought to keep the third person more distanced than most do; it shouldn't resemble first person. Looks forward to telling her about someone she met at Aix-les-Bains this summer [Mme Franklin Grout, niece of Flaubert].   Willa   [Stout #1027]

• Letter ID: 1025
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1930-11-18
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Nov. 18, [1930], from New York ; UVt 

Enclosed photo explains why she had to return to New York. Medals are not something she enjoys, but the people who award them mean well. Didn't come to visit before she left because work was going well and she was afraid to disrupt it. Glad to receive a copy of Deepening Stream. Will read it as soon as doctors have finished checking out her appendix. Except for that has been feeling well.   Willa   [Stout #1025]

• Letter ID: 1018
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1930-09-30
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Sept. 30, [1930], from aboard the SS Empress of France ; UVt 

Sorry to hear her mother died but glad she did not have to linger. Deaths of those close to one leave the world seeming shrunken. Hopes to visit her in Vermont during time in Jaffrey. Her own mother still suffering the punishment of lingering illness.   Willa   [Stout #1018]

• Letter ID: 1008
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1930-03-10
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Mar. 10, [1930], from Pasadena, Calif. ; UVt 

Mother had a laugh from the picture of Mark Twain dinner. Seems a little better than last year, but still terrible condition. Sister away for a little rest. English nurse has been caring for her for a year and is very good. Has a cottage [at Las Encinas Sanitarium] of her own and is comfortable physically, but life looks bleak.   Willa   [Stout #1008]

• Letter ID: 0997
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1929-12-20
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Dec. 20, [1929], from Grosvenor Hotel, New York ; UVt 

Commercial stationery reflects her life just now, very unsettled. Going to California again in January. Appreciated letter from Spain; received it at Grand Manan. Had a good rest, both there and in New Hampshire. New York has worn her out again. Yes, remembers Lizzie Hudson Collier, cousin of Wilkie Collins; an actress in Pittsburgh. Would like to have kept in touch with her. Has sent off eight Christmas boxes to farm women in Nebraska. Has loved them, and they her, for many years. Hears mother has improved a little. Still, a quick death would be much better. Sorry the letter seems blue, but is feeling homesick.   Willa   [Stout #997]

• Letter ID: 0972
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1929-05/1929-06
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  n.d. [late May or early June 1929?] , from Long Beach, Calif. ; UVt 

Had bronchitis in January, after mother suffered stroke in December. Has been here since February. Found a house and moved her mother, who is entirely paralyzed on right side. Elsie there with her. Hates California; it seems like a place removed from God. How much better if this had happened to her mother at home! Feels disoriented and despairing.   Willa   [Stout #972]

• Letter ID: 0928
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1928-04-03
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Apr. 3, [1928], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; UVt 

Father died March 3, a week after she left for New York. Kept his boyishness to the end. Got back to Red Cloud just at dawn when he was laid out at the house, everyone else asleep, so had some time alone with him. So glad to have had long, happy winter visit with them. Mother has gone to California with Douglass. Is staying to get some repairs done on the house.   Willa   [Stout #928]

• Letter ID: 0923
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1928-01-18
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Jan. 18, [1928], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; UVt 

A Cather family Christmas is epical. A happy time, but she is spent.   Willa   [Stout #923]

• Letter ID: 0915
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1927-11-27
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Nov. 27, [1927] ; UVt 

Leaving December 1. Happy Christmas.   Willa   [Stout #915]

• Letter ID: 0890
• Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
• Date: 1927-08-17
• Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,  Aug. 17, [1927?], from New York ; UVt 

Letter reached her in Wyoming, and she meant to answer it from Red Cloud but father had a heart attack. Better now. Came back to New York day before yesterday to vacate apartment. Putting things in storage. Has cancelled trip to France. Brother Douglass plans to take parents to California this winter. Doesn't suppose people who are used to movies will care for Death Comes for the Archbishop, a book without women. Sorry moviemakers will soon be at Acoma.   Willa   [Stout #890]