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Cather, Charles. Letter, 30 Oct 1870.

Title: Letter, 30 Oct 1870.

Written to his sister from Cheyenne, Wyoming describing the terrain, animals, and the Rocky Mountains.

ArchivalResource: 2 pp. : photograph and manuscript.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122610283 View

Susan J. Rosowski Cather Collection, 1861-1992

Title: Susan J. Rosowski Cather Collection, 1861-1992

ArchivalResource: 3 boxes, 1.5 linear feet

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Willa Cather Collection Mss. 152c., 1865-1974

Title: Willa Cather Collection 1865-1974

Letters to family members containing Cather's opinion on illustrators of children's books and reactions to favorable and unfavorable publicity, biographical sketch, news clippings and four family photographs. Also contains a diary written by Cather's father, Charles F. Cather, at age seventeen describing his experiences in rural Frederick County, Virginia, near the end of the Civil War.

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Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Willa Cather collection, 1865-1974.

Title: Willa Cather collection, 1865-1974.

Letters addressed to her sister and mother containing Cather's opinion on illustrators of children's books (1908), her surprised reaction to a favorable review, and comments on some unfavorable publicity. Includes 4 family photographs, miscellaneous newsclippings, a published biographical sketch of Cather signed by her sister, newsletters from the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation (1974-1975), and a commemorative stamp. Also includes the 1865 diary of Cather's father, Charles F. Cather, who at 17, describes his experiences in rural Frederick County, Va., at the end of the Civil War. The diary contains references to the war, "Yankee" and "Rebel" soldiers, the surrender of Lee and the Confederacy, school, farm chores and other local activities and events.

ArchivalResource: 22 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27358611 View

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Papers of Willa Cather [manuscript], 1922-1924.

Title: Papers of Willa Cather [manuscript], 1922-1924.

The collection contains twenty-five letters, including eleven written by Cather, concerning a portrait of Cather by Leon Bakst commissioned by friends for the Omaha Public Library. The letters discuss the selection of the artist, the sittings, shipments home and exhibits in Philadelphia and Boston, a photograph of the portrait for Alfred A. Knopf, the unveiling by Cather's niece, criticism of the portrait and Cather's reaction to the portrait and the criticism. With the letters is a photograph of Cather with Bakst in his Paris studio inscribed to Duncan M. Vinsonhaler. Judge Duncan M. Vinsonhaler is the chief correspondent.

ArchivalResource: 26 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647823164 View

Cather, Charles Fectigue, 1848-. Charles Fectigue Cather diary / Charles F. Cather.

Title: Charles Fectigue Cather diary / Charles F. Cather. 1865.

Written by Willa Cather's father at age 16.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. ; 10 x 6.5 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/9627438 View

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947. Letter, New York, to Charles Fectigue Cather [manuscript] 1906 December 17.

Title: Letter, New York, to Charles Fectigue Cather [manuscript] 1906 December 17.

Cather regrets that she can not come home from Christmas because she is helping S.S. McClure edit the Milmine biography of Mary Baker Eddy for serial publication.

ArchivalResource: 1 item.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/647949317 View

Dean, Miles B. Papers, 1931-1936.

Title: Papers, 1931-1936.

Manuscript articles (mostly undated) and letters concerning state relief, national and local politics, and the centralization of government under the New Deal. An article concerning western migration from Frederick County, Virginia (1878-1884), refers to Willa Cather and her father, Charles F. Cather. Correspondents include J. O. Hodgkins of Newcastle, Maine and John Garland Pollard, former Governor of Virginia. William Jennings Bryan material includes a 1936 manuscript article by Dean, that deals with the Democratic National Convention of 1912 and Bryan's endorsement of Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: 26 items in 1 folder.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155180637 View