Roosevelt, Grace Stackpole Lockwood (1893-1971). American temperance activist. Born in Boston, MA, to Thomas St. John Lockwood and Emmaline Dabney Lockwood, Grace Lockwood graduated from Miss Winsor’s School and became a prominent member of the Back Bay community. In 1917 she married Theodore Roosevelt’s son, Archibald “Archie” Bulloch Roosevelt; they had four children, Archibald Jr., Theodora, Nancy, and Edith. During the 1930s she actively crusaded for the repeal of prohibition and founded the Women’s Organization for National Reform. In 1932 Willa Cather declined Grace’s invitation to speak before the National Economy League, an organization co-founded by her husband.

Bloom, Sarah J. (1889-1961). Cather's personal secretary. Born in New York in 1889 to Russian immigrants Solomon and Bertha Bloom, Sarah J. Bloom worked for Cather from some time in the 1920s until Cather's death and continued to work for Edith Lewis on matters pertaining to Cather's literary estate thereafter. Bloom typed Cather's literary manuscripts and managed Cather's correspondence, typing dictated letters and sometimes responding for Cather when she was traveling. Bloom’s work for Cather supplemented full-time office employment in New York City (for many years she worked for the New York State Public Service Commission). She thus came to Cather and Lewis's apartment on weekends to take dictation, pick up and deliver typescripts, and deliver typed letters for signature. She died in New York city in 1961.