A Calendar of the Letters of Willa Cather

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Letter ID: 0310
Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
Date: 1915-06-27
Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, June 27, [1915], from New York ; PM

Has just read her essay on Provence in Century. Is busy with proofs. Jack is off in Maine. A musical critic is reading galleys and is enthusiastic, especially about the singing lessons. Would have felt bad if those hadn't been right! Has she seen Henry James's article about Mrs. Fields in the June Atlantic? Isn't she disappointed in Owen Wister's novel? [Pentecost of Calamity, 1915] P.S.: Loves her khaki outfit for the cliff dwellings— reminds her of Kurt's outfit in Fidelio [ Beethoven ]. Willa [Stout #310]

Letter ID: 0401
Addressee: Van Tuyll, Miss (Houghton Mifflin)
Date: 1917-12-04
Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To Miss Van Tuyll [at Houghton Mifflin], Dec. 4, [1917] ; Harvard

The sample of heavy lettering is what she had in mind, but the accent over the initial "A" needs to be more distinct. Willa Cather [Stout #401]

Letter ID: 0439
Addressee: Greenslet, Ferris
Date: 1924-11-03
Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To Ferris Greenslet, Nov. 3, [1924], from New York ; Harvard

Has received royalty check. Please send one copy each of The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia to Dr. Frederic Sweeney at Jaffrey. Willa Cather [Stout #439]

Letter ID: 0504
Addressee: Greenslet, Ferris
Date: 1920-04-19
Repository: Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, Mass.

To Ferris Greenslet, Apr. 19, [1920] ; Harvard

Please ask Mr. Linscott to return the photograph she sent. Would appreciate receiving her semiannual royalty check now, before she goes abroad. P.S.: Please send a copy of My Ántonia to Dr. Johan Bojer, to take back to Norway. Willa Cather [Stout #504]

Letter ID: 0549
Addressee: Van Doren, Carl
Date: 1921-07-30
Repository: Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, N.J.

To Carl Van Doren, July 30, [1921], from Toronto ; Princeton

Has been noticing his writing on authors in their own styles, and likes what he did with her. Believes her new novel will be her best yet, but he will still probably think it formless. He can return her copy of The Troll Garden when she gets back to New York. Willa Cather [Stout #549]

Letter ID: 0553
Addressee: Tyndale, Dr. Julius
Date: 1921-09-21
Repository: University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Charlottesville, Va.

To Dr. Julius Tyndale, Sept. 21, [1921], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; UVa

He may find this telegram from her publisher interesting. It's about the new novel. [Encloses copy of telegram from Alfred Knopf praising One of Ours, still in typescript.] Willa Cather [Stout #553]

Letter ID: 0557
Addressee: Weisz, Irene Miner
Date: 1921-10-31
Repository: Newberry Library, Chicago

To Irene Miner Weisz, Monday [Oct. 31, 1921] , from Lincoln ; Newberry

Heard that some people in the audience thought she used the word "smart" to mean "shrewd." She meant it in the sense of style. Glad she came, because Dr. Tyndale enjoyed it. Willa [Stout #557]

Letter ID: 0570
Addressee: Van Doren, Carl
Date: 1922-01-02
Repository: Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, N.J.

To Carl Van Doren, Jan. 2, [1922] ; Princeton

Is back at home and hopes he can come for tea on a Friday. Would like to discuss his chapter on Henry James in The American Novel [1921] . Willa Cather [Stout #570]

Letter ID: 0588
Addressee: Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Date: 1922-03
Repository: University of Vermont, Bailey-Howe Library, Burlington, Vt.

To Dorothy Canfield Fisher, n.d. [March 1922?] , apparently a fragment ; UVt

Proofs have arrived, and Dorothy's questions will help her make improvements. Is certain, though, about the independent or traveling guns of the British. Incident of the killing of the German with the locket was from something a young officer told her; she used it because he didn't seem to understand and she liked that. The little girl and the terrible baby also from something told her by a soldier. Used the diary of a physician [Dr. Frederic Sweeney, Jaffrey, N.H.] for the flu epidemic on the transport ship. Is sure of the date U.S. troops went into battle at Chateau Thierry. Claude's feeling about David's violin was from her own feeling of inferiority when they were in France in 1902. Knows readers won't give the book a chance because it is a war novel. [Stout #588]

Letter ID: 0594
Addressee: Van Doren, Carl
Date: 1922-05-08
Repository: Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, N.J.

To Carl Van Doren, Monday [c. May 8, 1922?] , from no. 5 Bank Street, New York ; Princeton

Thanks for the book, which was waiting when she returned from sanitorium. Glad he likes Ántonia, but believes new book is better. Three years of hard work. Willa Cather [Stout #594]

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