WCA: Calendar of Letters

Letter ID: 0055
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1897/1898
Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections

To [?] , n.d. [prob. 1897 or 1898] excerpt transcribed by Bernice Slote ; UNL

Enjoyed Thanksgiving visit to Columbus. Canfields away, leaving house to Dorothy, Jim and fiancée, and herself. Many parties. Is spending much of her leisure time with Ethelbert Nevin, a lovable man. Has been reading Kipling's poetry, as she used to at the university. [Stout #55]

Letter ID: 1344
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1936
Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

To unknown person, [1936] , Christmas card ; WCPM

Mary Virginia and her husband will be there for Christmas Eve dinner. Will be thinking about friends in Red Cloud. Willa Cather [Stout #1344]

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]

Letter ID: 1505
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1940-11-23
Repository: Loyola University, New Orleans, LA

To unnamed nun [addressed only as Sister], Nov. 23, 1940 ; Loyola

Yes, several of her books show admiration for Catholic missionary priests. Has known and personally admired several—Father Connelly in Winslow, Arizona, Father Haltermann in Santa Cruz, N.M., and a Belgian priest who died in World War I while serving as a chaplain in the Belgian army. Enclosing a reprint of her letter to the Commonweal about sources for Death Comes for the Archbishop. Willa Cather [Stout #1505]

Letter ID: 1745
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1946-12
Repository: Newberry Library, Chicago

To unknown [ Carrie Miner? ], prob. Dec. 1946, Christmas card ; Newberry

Thanks for not punishing her. As Sigrid Undset says, it is very easy to punish someone who is already down. Willie [Stout #1745]

Letter ID: 1784
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1922/1940
Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

To unidentified recipient, n.d., from Grand Manan ; WCPM

Glad she liked the book, but will probably like My Ántonia more. Willa Cather [Stout #1784]

Letter ID: 1798
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1900/1947
Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation

To unidentified recipient, n.d. ; WCPM

Saw this happy surprise when she bought a newspaper on the train. Willie [Stout #1798]

Letter ID: 1815
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1906/1947
Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To ?, n.d. note written on a printed page showing pictures of Clement C. Moore and his house, with the beginning of the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas"; PM

Was Moore a real person, then? [Stout #1815]

Letter ID: 1936
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1934/1939
Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Susan J. and James Rosowski Cather Collection (MS228)

To unknown [Elsie Cather?], n.d. letter fragment, only the last page has survived; UNL-Rosowski Cather

Hopes to get a reply soon. Sends love and congratulations for productive work at home. Willie

Letter ID: 1937
Addressee: unknown
Date: 1930/1939
Repository: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Susan J. and James Rosowski Cather Collection (MS228)

To unknown, n.d. note originally accompanied a copy of an unknown Cather novel; ; UNL-Rosowksi

Book is the recently released second British edition. The image on the dust jacket must be how they imagine a Nebraska farm. What seems to be growing is carrots!

A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather

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