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February 14, 2022
There are now 2,500 letters published in The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. The edition features letters from more than twenty repositories across the country.
June 16, 2021
The Complete Letters of Willa Cather now features 2,200 total letters. With this new batch, we are more than two thirds of the way through publishing all known Cather letters.
December 23, 2020
We wrapped up 2020 today by publishing 100 more letters. Happy Holidays!
October 12, 2020
As of today, we have 2,000 letters published in The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. This new milestone features letters to more than 250 recipients from across Cather's social, professional, and familial networks, spanning most of her life.
August 12, 2020
We now have 1900 letters published on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, featuring letters from 19 different repositories.
July 20, 2020
Today we bring our total number of published letters up to 1800, including all of the letters at Smith College across six collections.
May 5, 2020
While working from home, our team published 50 more letters today. There are now 1700 letters available in The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. Stay tuned for more!
April 13, 2020
50 more letters have been published on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, bringing our total published letters up to 1650.
February 5, 2020
Today we increased our number of published letters to an even 1600, with letters from the second phase of publication making their first appearance. Keep an eye out for continued regular updates.
October 29, 2019
The first phase of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather is now complete! These 1516 letters represent almost half of all known letters, gathering letters from some of the largest repositories in the world, including Harvard University, the National Willa Cather Center, History Nebraska, the Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
July 25, 2019
1400 total letters have been published in The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. Phase one is almost complete!
May 1, 2019
As of today, we now have 1300 letters available in The Complete Letters of Willa Cather!
March 21, 2019
Today we published 100 more letters on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather. We now have 1200 available online!
February 4, 2019
100 more letters have been published on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather, bringing our total up to 1100 today.
October 17, 2018
As of today, there are now 1000 letters available on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather!
September 21, 2018
972 letters are now available on The Complete Letters of Willa Cather site.
July 6, 2018
100 letters have been published today. 877 edited, annotated letters are now available on the site.
June 11, 2018
Today we published another 58 letters, bringing the total number of available letters to 777.
April 27, 2018
Another 99 letters have been published! At 719 letters, we are approaching a quarter of all known Cather letters.
March 19, 2018
Today we've published another 88 letters. 621 edited, annotated letters are now available on the site.
February 22, 2018
Another 105 letters have been released, bringing the total number of available letters to 533.
January 16, 2018
The first installment of the multi-year publication of The Complete Letters of Willa Cather is available. There are 428 letters published in this installment, featuring correspondence with twenty-nine different people from four different repositories. Over a thousand letters are nearing completion, and we are planning to publish around one hundred more each month until we reach approximately 1,500 letters by the fall of 2018.
