Willa Cather Collection 1865-1974

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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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SNAC Resource ID: 6641391

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