Cyril Clemens (January 12 [1932]) | Willa Cather Archive

#1094: Willa Cather to Cyril Clemens, January 12 [1932]

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ January 12^th My Dear Mr. Clemens¹;

As I am going abroad immediately it will be impossible for me to serve as a judge in the proposed contest. Thank you for the invitation.

Very sincerely yours Willa Cather Mr. Cyril Clemens¹ Webster Grove³ Missouri RED CLOUD NEBR.² JAN 12 1932 730 PM

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let1094.xml
Letter identifier: 1094
Contents: Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes one envelope, handwritten.
Person to whom letter was written: Cyril Clemens¹
Date letter was written: January 12 [1932]
Place letter was written: Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States²
Location of original letter: WCPM Collection, National Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, NE

Person Annotations

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Clemens, Cyril (1902-1999). American biographer. A distant cousin of Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain), Cyril Clemens was born in St. Louis, MO, to James R. and Kathryn T. Clemens, and received his BA and MA from Washington University (St. Louis). He founded the International Mark Twain Society in 1930 and edited its journal, the Mark Twain Quarterly, from 1936-1982. He wrote biographies and biographical sketches of his famous cousin and other literary figures, including G.K. Chesterton and A.E. Housman. The Mark Twain Society awarded a medal to Cather in 1934; Clemens asked Cather for contributions to the journal and pressed her for information about her 1902 visit to Housman.

Place Annotations

Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States

Webster Groves, Missouri, United States