Papers, 1910-1960.

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Papers, 1910-1960.

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Personal papers of Olga Folda Stepanek. Personal diaries and journals from 1913-1948, excluding ones from her college days. Some include travel accounts of Europe and her daughters' childhoods. One of her letters, written during her European travels in 1928, was published in the Clarkson, Nebraska newspaper. After 1930 the majority of letters are to her mother and to her friend, Janet DeFord. Letters to DeFord range from 1941 to the early 1950s. Among notable correspondents are Willa Cather and J. Middleton Murry. Included are letters exchanged between Orin Stepanek and Hartley Burr Alexander. Poetry is written by Olga Stepanek and by Orin Stepanek. Also included are fifteen short stories by Olga Stepanek, mostly written in the 1920s and '30s; lectures; and her unfinished novel, "Exiled." There is also an autobiography, written in Czech, by F.J. Sadílek, "Z mých upomínek," titled in English, "Reminiscences of My Grandfather Sadilek," and Olga Stepanek's notes about her letters and journals.

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