• Letter ID: 1346
• Addressee: Crofts, Margaret
• Date: 1936
• Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

To Mrs. [Margaret?] Crofts,  [1936?] , Christmas card with picture of four cowboys or farmers, some sheep, and angels overhead ; UNL 

Doesn't like pictures like this, in the Grant Wood style, on Christmas cards, but bought them to help someone. Might think of the cowboy-looking shepherds as C.C.C. fellows [Civilian Conservation Corps, a New Deal initiative] and one of the angels above as President Roosevelt.   W. S. C.   [Stout #1346]

• Letter ID: 1385
• Addressee: Greenslet, Ferris
• Date: 1937-12-29
• Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To Ferris Greenslet,  Jan. 29, 1937 [actually Dec. 29, 1937] ; Harvard 

Thanks for Christmas greeting. Sends New Year's wishes. Does not want an edition of My Ántonia illustrated by Grant Wood. Iowa, his home, is really very different from Nebraska. Please leave Ántonia as is and give assurance that Benda illustrations will be kept. Has read one of Houghton Mifflin's recently published books and likes it, but doesn't dare name it for fear his publicity department will advertise the fact.   Willa Cather   [Stout #1385]

• Letter ID: 1878
• Addressee: Greenslet, Ferris
• Date: 1939-04
• Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Susan J. and James Rosowski Cather Collection (MS228)

To Ferris Greenslet,  April 1939 partial transcription, not original; UNL-Rosowski Cather 

Please let Ántonia be. The novel surely brings Houghton Mifflin more money than most published two decades ago. Is not surprised that some don't understand that Grant Wood's style is a poor fit with the novel. Benda's illustrations work well. [part of letter omitted from transcription] Again, don't bother Ántonia.  

• Letter ID: 1347
• Addressee: unknown
• Date: 1936
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To unknown person [possibly Mr. and Mrs. George Whicher],  n.d. [1936?] , Christmas card ; PM 

Doesn't really care for Christmas cards in the Grant Wood style. Maybe they are C.C.C. boys with Roosevelt trumpeting in the sky. Such bad times!   Willa Cather   [Stout #1347]