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

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

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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.

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Omaha Public Library

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Burn, Ellen.

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Donovan, Albert D.

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Auld, Mary Virginia.

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Tyndale, J. Hilgard (Julius Hilgard), 1843-

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Cather, Charles F. (Charles Fectigue), 1848-

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Vinsonhaler, Duncan M.

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Hitchcock, Gilbert M. (Gilbert Monell), 1859-1934

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U.S. senator and newspaper publisher from Nebraska. From the description of Gilbert M. Hitchcock papers, 1910-1935. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980119 Biographical Note 1859, Sept. 18 Born, Omaha, Neb. 1881 Graduated, law department, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich. ...

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

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American novelist and short-story writer. From the description of Letters, 1926-1931. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122494991 Willa Cather was an American novelist and short story writer. From the guide to the Willa Cather literary manuscripts, 1926-1940, (The New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division.) American novelist, journalist, and editor. From the description of Collection, 1908-1963. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research...

Bakst, Leon Nicolaevitch, 1866-1924.

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Shotwell, Margaret Badollet Caldwell.

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