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Charles E. Cather Collection

Title: Charles E. Cather Collection

Collector: Cather, Charles Edwin, 1923-2011

Creator: Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, et al

Dates: 1860s-2007 bulk 1924-1971

Quantity: 21 boxes (11 linear feet)

Collection Number: MS 0350

Language: English, French

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Preferred Citation: Charles E. Cather Collection (MS 0350). Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries.

Biography:

Charles Edwin Cather (1923-2011), son of Willa Cather's brother and sister-in-law James "Jim" Donald Cather (1886-1966) and Ethel May Garber Cather (1889-1975), was born in Red Cloud, Nebraska, and died in Long Beach, California. His mother was the daughter of Edwin Stanton Garber, nephew of Silas Garber, who served as governor of Nebraska from 1875-79. Helen Louise Cather Southwick (1918-2004) was Charles' sister.

Willa Cather is well known for her short stories, essays, and novels that focused on her Nebraska experience, her early years in Virginia, her life in New York and Pittsburgh, and her travels to New Mexico, Canada, and Europe. For more biographical information on Cather, please visit The Willa Cather Archive .

Scope and Content:

The Charles E. Cather Collection is comprised of manuscripts, both handwritten and typewritten, of several of Willa Cather's novels and short stories. The majority of the manuscript material is from her novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl. There are letters from Cather to her brother James, her sister-in-law Ethel, and her nephew Charles and niece Helen, as well as letters to Cather from family, friends, and associates. Contracts for selected novels, both from Houghton-Mifflin and Alfred Knopf, are part of the materials. There is correspondence in which Cather declines offers regarding adaptations for multi-media productions. Personal materials include engagement calendars, notebooks with daily entries and selected research notes, address books, and financial account books. There are also items relating to Charles E. Cather and his grandparents, Willa Cather's parents, Charles Fectigue Cather and Mary Virginia "Jennie" Boak Cather.

Along with the paper records, the Charles E. Cather Collection includes books from Edith Lewis's personal collection of Cather books, given to her by Cather, often with inscriptions and photographs of Cather pasted into the preliminary pages. There are a few books that were Willa Cather's personal copies and a few books that were presented to her mother and her sister, Elsie Cather.

Subjects:

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947

Cather, Charles E., 1923-2011

Lewis, Edith, 1882-1972

Menuhin, Moshe, 1893-1983

Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

Menuhin, Yaltah, 1921-2001

Hambourg, Isabelle McClung, 1877-1938

Fisher, Dorothy Canfield, 1879-1958

Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley, 1881-1965

Brewster, Earl, 1878-1957

Brewster, Achsah Barlow, 1879-1945

Novelists, American -- 20th century

Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 -- Friends and associates

Women singers -- United States

Pianists -- United States

Women authors -- United States

Authors, American -- 20th century

Menuhin family

Series Description: Series 1: Cather Correspondence

Cather writes numerous letters to her nephew Charles E. Cather in which she discusses family events, his uncertainty regarding the draft for World War II, and her happiness in receiving flowers at Christmas. The letters Cather wrote to her brother James address financial issues and Cather's investments in the Colusa, California, bank that their brother Roscoe operated. Some letters are those that Edith Lewis wrote to Charles E. Cather after the death of his aunt.

There are letters from many of Cather's family, friends, and admirers, such as Olive Fremstad, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Isabelle McClung Hambourg, letters from fans of Cather's novels, and letters from Anna Pavelka and other Red Cloud residents.

Series 2: Manuscripts and Publications

The majority of publication material relates to the writing and publishing of Willa Cather On Writing, which includes notes, numerous typescripts, and proofs.

This set of materials includes manuscripts and typescripts by Cather, either with her edits or those of Edith Lewis. Of great significance are the manuscript pages from what Edith Lewis described as Cather's last novel, "Hard Punishments" and four pages of an unidentified manuscript with the first line reading "While she was fixing a room...." All of the manuscript material had been kept in one package, with selected items within envelopes, others held together by paper clips, and others only distinct by their order within the package. This original order has been maintained and all materials associated in this manner have been placed into distinct folders. The edited typescript carbon pages had some sets of paginated materials placed together. When it became obvious that the pages fit into a page number pattern, each set was placed into a separate envelope and arranged numerically. These distinctions have been maintained, although the material now appears in numerical order by page number where possible. It is also arranged according to whether the materials were edited typescripts, edited typescript carbons, lightly edited typescripts or typescript carbons, or without any edits at all.

Series 3: Personal Materials

Personal materials include engagement calendars with daily entries for appointments and activities, a notebook from a trip to Taos, New Mexico, used by Willa Cather and Edith Lewis about 1925-1926, and financial account books for the years 1924-1948 documenting Cather's income and investments. The William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, also in the collection, was given to Cather in 1930 in recognition for her novel Death Comes for the Archbishop.

Series 4: Family Materials

There is a recommendation letter to West Point United States Military Academy for Charles E. Cather. A small notebook is comprised of poetry, either copied from a poem or written by Charles F. Cather, and journal entries. There are also entries added by Jennie Cather. Additional materials are associated with other family members, including Willa Cather's sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews.

Series 5: Edith Lewis

There are numerous letters from Edith Lewis to Cather biographer E.K. Brown between 1949-1951. Lewis answers some of the questions that Brown addressed to her or promises to do so in the notes she sent to him. She provides details on people who may be worth meeting, interviewing, or writing regarding Cather. Lewis specifically writes about Cather's intention for her letters and for her biography, on those who she believed sought to write about Cather but could not do her justice, about events she remembered. For example, she writes that her memories of Washington Place are vague. She discusses Cather's Friday salons and states that those were visits from past friends and acquaintances but those that were close to Cather were invited to dinner. She explains to Brown that Cather did not reminisce, but would talk of a person or event as she was reminded of them. Lewis discusses at length Alexander's Bridge, and comments on the Cather's perception of Alexander's marriage. She also talks in a letter about the early "stage" novel that Cather later burned that had the title of "Fanny."

More personal letters are those from Lewis's family, including her mother Lily Gould, her father Henry E. Lewis, and her sisters Ruth Lewis and Helen Lewis Morgan. Additional letters are those from Earl H. and Achsah Leona Barlow Brewster and their daughter Harwood Barlow Brewster Picard. The Brewsters met Cather and Lewis during their travels in Europe. The Brewsters wrote from their home in southern Italy, from France, and after 1935, from their home in Almora, Uttar Pradesh, India. Additional letters are those from the Menuhin family, Moshe and Marutha and their children Yehudi, Hephzibah, and Yaltah, the majority written by Marutha and Yaltah.

The final materials associated with Lewis are requests for publication permissions sent to her for review and approval, along with financial information from the City Bank Farmers Trust Company regarding Cather's estate, royalties, and Lewis's taxes.

Series 6: Photographs

The photographs of Cather include multiple portrait sittings, some which provide new views of portraits produced during the sittings. The majority of photographs can be found in other Cather collections, or are of extended family.

Series 7: Medals and Artifacts

This series includes medals awarded to Cather, including the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded in 1930.

Series 8: Newspaper Clippings

These are clippings about Cather or her published works. The newspaper scrapbooks include articles clipped from publications and pasted into a scrapbook. Some of the clippings are those cut out and saved, but not incorporated into a scrapbook. The majority of the clippings are very fragile and brittle. There are brittle envelopes and bags of unsorted clippings that have been identified by the location noted on the container and a title or a few words from the first item seen.

Series 9: Douglass Cather Correspondence

Letters to Charles Douglass, (C.D.) "Douglass" Cather, from Jessica Cather Auld, with some from Retta Miner, William Andrews, Carrie Sherwood, I.W. Crowell, and others, written between 1931 and 1938. A few photographs of Douglass Cather and Carbo, Mexico, are included.

Container List: Series 1: Cather CorrespondenceBox 1. Folder 1. Correspondence, to Roscoe Cather, two letters with the same date, 1938, June 21 Box 1. Folder 2. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1938, MayItem 1. Letter, Cather to Douglass, 1938, May 14 Item 2. Letter, Cather to Douglass, 1938, May 15 Item 3. Letter, Cather to Douglass, 1938, May 23 Box 1. Folder 3. Correspondence, to James D. and Ethel Cather, 1931-1939Item 1. Letter, Cather to Ethel, 1931, Jan. 6 Item 2. Letter, Cather to James, 1933, May 6 Item 3. Letter, Cather to James, 1939, Jan. 11 Box 1. Folder 4. Correspondence, to James D. and Ethel Cather, 1943-1947Item 1. Letter, Cather to James, 1943, May 4 Item 2. Letter, Cather to James, 1944, Nov. 28 Item 3. Telegram, Cather to James, 1945, Sept. 22 Item 4. Letter, Cather to James, 1945, Sept. 24 Item 5. Letter, Cather to James, with enclosure, 1946, Mar. 26 Item 6. Letter, Cather to James, 1946, May 8 Item 7. Sarah J. Bloom to James, 1946, May 8 Item 8. Letter, Cather to James, (?), Oct. 30 Item 9. Letter, Cather to James, 1944, June 13(?) Box 1. Folder 5. Correspondence, to Elsie Cather, 1941, 1942Item 1. Letter, Cather to Elsie, envelope addressed by Edith Lewis, 1941, June 30 Item 2. Letter, Cather to Elsie, 1942, May 9 Box 1. Folder 6. Correspondence, Cather to Helen Cather Southwick, 1940, 1946Item 1. Letter, Cather to Helen, 1940, Mar. 23 Item 2. Letter, Cather to Helen, 1946, Apr. Item 3. Telegram, Cather to Helen, 1946, Sept. 17 Box 1. Folder 7. Correspondence, to Charles E. Cather, 1923-1943Item 1. Card, Cather, Jennie Cather to Charles E., 1923, Jan. 3 [Feb. 3] Item 2. Letter, Cather to Charles, post script to James, 1935, June 14, 1935, June 12 Item 3. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1942, Jan. 19 Item 4. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1943, Mar. 29 Box 1. Folder 8. Correspondence, to Charles E. Cather, 1944-1945Item 1. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1944, June 14 Item 2. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1944, Oct. 19 Item 3. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1944, Dec. 1 Item 4. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1944, Dec. 25 Item 5. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1945, Mar. 14(?) Item 6. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1945, Aug. 4 Item 7. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1945, Oct. 3 Item 8. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1945, Nov. 21 Item 9. Christmas card, Cather to Charles, 1945, Dec. 14(?) Item 10. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1945, Dec. 26 Box 1. Folder 9. Correspondence, to Charles E. Cather, 1946-1947Item 1. Easter card, Cather to Charles, 1946, Apr. 16 Item 2. Letter, Cather to Charles, 1946, Apr. 25 Item 3. Letter, Cather to Charles, with undated Christmas card to Charles, 1946, Dec. 12 Item 4. Letter, Cather to Charles E., 1947, Jan. 10 Box 1. Folder 10. Correspondence, postcard, Cather to ?, undated Box 1. Folder 11. Correspondence, to Cather, from Charles F. Cather, 1897-1919 Box 1. Folder 12. Correspondence, to Cather, Cather and Elsie Cather, from Roscoe Cather, ca. 1907, 1938-1941 (see photos) Box 1. Folder 13. Envelope, to Cather, from Douglass Cather, 1905, July Box 1. Folder 14. Correspondence, to Cather and Elsie Cather, from James Cather, 1945-1946, undated Box 1. Folder 15. Correspondence, to Cather from Will Owen Jones, 1903, May 19 Box 1. Folder 16. Correspondence, to Cather, from Mary Austin, 1913, Dec. 4(?) Box 1. Folder 17. Correspondence, to Cather, from Olive Fremstad, 1913-1922, undated Box 1. Folder 18. Correspondence, to Cather, from Mary Jewett, 1913 Box 1. Folder 19. Correspondence, to Cather, from Giles J. Smith, 1913 Box 1. Folder 20. Correspondence, to Cather, from Dorothy Canfield Fisher, [1915?], [1925?] Box 1. Folder 21. Correspondence, to Cather, from Gladys T. Hartley, 1921 Box 1. Folder 22. Correspondence, to Cather, Edith Lewis, from Anna Pavelka, 1935-1954 Box 1. Folder 23. Correspondence, to Cather, from Jan Hambourg, 1937, May 28 Box 1. Folder 24. Correspondence, to Cather, from Bishop George Beecher, 1943-1947 Box 1. Folder 25. Correspondence, to Cather, from Ferris Greenslet, 1943, undated, enclosure letter to Greenslet, undated Box 1. Folder 26. Correspondence, to Cather, from Carrie Miner Sherwood, undated Box 1. Folder 27. Correspondence, to Cather, from Yaltah Menuhin, no year, June 31 Box 1. Folder 28. Correspondence, to Cather, 1905-ca. 1911Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Oscar Lichtenberg, 1905, Jan. 20 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from Ann Waters Mazzanovich, 1905, May 2 Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from Charles Michael Williams, 1905, May 4 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Witter Bynner, 1905, May 19 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Margaret(?) Guderlook(?), 1905, May 24 Item 6. Letter, to Cather, from Witter Bynner, 1905, July 5 Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from George F. Bronson-Howard, ca. 1905 Item 8. Letter, to Cather, from Harold Child, ca. 1906-1911, Dec. 25 Box 1. Folder 29. Correspondence, to Cather, 1915, 1916, undatedItem 1. Letter, to Cather, from Harry Leigh "H.L." Tooker, 1915, Oct. 27 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from William Archer, 1915, Dec. 3 Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from H.W. Boynton, 1915, Dec. 10 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Jacob Henrici, 1916, Apr. 18 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from H.W. Boynton, 1916, Apr. 24 Item 6. Letter, to Cather, from Samuel M. Ilsley, 1916, May 6 Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from Anna Erik(?) B. Fries, 1916, Aug 13 Item 8. Letter, to Cather, from William Helmuth(?), 1916(?) Nov. 7 Box 1. Folder 30. Correspondence, to Cather, 1920-1923, 192(?)Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Charles T. Ryder, 1920, July 30 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from May Willard, 1920, Nov. 8 Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from Alan Cooke, 1921, Mar. 13 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Elizabeth and Frederick E. Partington, 1921, June 20 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Louise W. Mears, 1921, Sept. 9 Item 6. Letter, to Cather, from Marie Blumer(?), 1923, "M." 17 Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from Elizabeth Huffman, 192(?), Aug. 9 Box 1. Folder 31. Correspondence, to Cather, 1927-1928Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Rev. Kerndt M. Healey, 1927, Oct. 5 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from Theodore Byard, 1928, Feb. 17 Box 1. Folder 32. Correspondence, to Cather, 1930-1931Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from William C. Kerr, 1930, Nov. 14 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from Jaroslav Novak, 1930, Dec. 19 Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from Read Bain, 1931, Feb. 10 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Ira J. Williams, 1931, Feb. 12 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Jaroslav Novak, 1931, Aug. 3 Item 6. Letter, to Cather, from Ruth D. James, 1931, Aug. 7 Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from Alex Stedman, with note by Sarah J. Bloom, 1931, Aug. 11 Item 8. Letter, to Cather, from Read Bain, 1931, Sept. 25 Item 9. Letter, to Cather, from Ruth Brindze, 1931, Nov. 4 Box 1. Folder 33. Correspondence, to Cather, 1932-1934Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Constance Aulting(?), 1932, Jan. 24 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from W.L. Ormond, pharmacist, Nova Scotia, 1932, July 20 Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from Eileen Kingston, 1933, Feb. 5 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Suzanne Drouel Chapin (Mrs. James), 1934, Jan. 23 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Lydia Lambrecht, 1934, Dec. 2 Box 1. Folder 34. Correspondence, to Cather, 1936Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from E.K. Brown, with enclosed note to Brown from Sarah J. Bloom, 1936, Aug. 5, 1936, July 26 Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from Brother Claudius Antony, 1936 Box 1. Folder 35. Correspondence, to Cather, 1938-1941Item 1. Letter, to Sarah J. Bloom, from Clara H. Furbush, 1938, Feb. 18 Item 2. Letter, attention to J. Florence Rubin, from C. Vernon Eddy, 1938, June 28 Item 3. Postcard, to Cather, from Harriet and George Whicher, 1938, June 28 Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from Mrs. J.B. Priestley (Mary), 1939, Feb. 24 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Howard S. Foe, 1939, Mar. 25 Item 6. Letter, to Cather, from (?), written in French, 1940, May Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from Edward W. Mumford, 1940, June 13 Item 8. Letter, to Cather, from Trix Mizer, 1941, Apr. 2 Item 9. Letter, to Cather, from Etta Marie Gurney, 1941, Apr. 5 Item 10. Letter, to Cather, from M. Lynebl(?), New Haven, CT 1941, Apr. 14 Box 1. Folder 36. Correspondence, to Cather, 1942-1943Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Bessie Egan, 1942, Nov. 22 Item 2. Note, to Cather, from Sigrid Undset, 1943, Feb. Item 3. Letter and certificate, to Cather from National Academy of Arts & Sciences, 1943, May 12 Box 1. Folder 37. Correspondence, to Cather, 1945-1947Item 1. Letter, to Cather, from Louis J. Attsbacher, 1945, Jan. 2 Item 2. Letter, torn, to Cather, from Ivy May Hardman, 1946, Apr. 22 Item 3. Christmas card, to Cather, from Lizzie Huffman, 1946, Dec. 16(?) Item 4. Letter, to Cather, from James Yeiser, 1947, Mar. 7 Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Mrs. D.B. Burden, 1947, Mar. 27 Box 1. Folder 38. Correspondence, to Cather, undatedItem 1. Letter, to Cather, from (?) a person acquainted with Geraldine Farrar, undated Item 2. Letter, to Cather, from Lydia Lambrecht, undated Item 3. Letter, to Cather, from (?) includes Edith Rabouin's address, undated Item 4. Letter, indecipherable, undated Item 5. Letter, to Cather, from Lydia Lambrecht, (?) Feb. 28 Item 6. Letter, torn, from (?), (?) Feb. 20 Item 7. Letter, to Cather, from Yvette Nariveau, undated Item 8. Christmas card, to Cather, from "Ethel," undated Item 9. Letter, to Cather, from Mrs. Eugene A. Stowell, (?), Jan. 26 Item 10. Letter, to Cather, from Helen Stiles, undated Item 11. Letter, to Cather, from I.W. Crowell, undated Item 12. Letter, to Cather, from H.L. Schroeder, undated Item 13. Letter, to Cather, from Yaltah Menuhin, (?), June 31 Series 2: Manuscript and Publication MaterialsBox 1. Folder 39. "Coming Aphrodite!" manuscript, 1 page Box 1. Folder 40. The Professor's House, manuscript, 1 page Box 1. Folder 41. Death Comes for the Archbishop, manuscript, pgs. 1-4 Box 1. Folder 42. Death Comes for the Archbishop, manuscript, pgs. 3-8 Box 1. Folder 43. Death Comes for the Archbishop, manuscript, pgs. 17-18 Box 1. Folder 44. Death Comes for the Archbishop, manuscript, pgs. 24.5, 26-27 Box 1. Folder 45. Shadows on the Rock, edited typescript, half-page, "Book IV - Pierre Charron," pg. 1 Box 1. Folder 46. Lucy Gayheart, manuscript, pg. 25 Box 1. Folder 47. Not Under Forty, "Prefatory Note," edited typescript Box 1. Folder 48. Not Under Forty, "Katherine Mansfield," edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 56A-63, pgs. 1-7 Box 1. Folder 49. Not Under Forty, "A Chance Meeting," edited typescript, pgs. 1-16 Box 1. Folder 50. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 1-3(2) Box 1. Folder 51. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 1-6 Box 1. Folder 52. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 1-11 Box 2. Folder 1. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 1-25 Box 2. Folder 2. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 1-32 Box 2. Folder 3. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 5-20, 22-23(2), 24-27 Box 2. Folder 4. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 55-61 Box 2. Folder 5. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 67-68 Box 2. Folder 6. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, hand paginated, book 2, pgs. 1-4 Box 2. Folder 7. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, edited typescript carbon, handwritten additions and pagination, pgs. 1-66 Box 2. Folder 8. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pg. 7 Box 2. Folder 9. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pgs. 25-58 Box 2. Folder 10. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pgs. 59-68 Box 2. Folder 11. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pgs. 76-88 Box 2. Folder 12. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pgs. 109-122 Box 2. Folder 13. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript, pgs. 123-138 Box 2. Folder 14. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript, pgs. 1-2 Box 2. Folder 15. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript, pgs. 3-24 Box 2. Folder 16. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript, pgs. 8-24 Box 2. Folder 17. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript, pgs. 25-50 Box 2. Folder 18. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, titled "new carbon, 30, page 1 through Jezebel's voyage," hand pagination, unpaginated, typed pagination, pgs. 1-108 Box 2. Folder 19. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 20-24 Box 2. Folder 20. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 25-52 Box 2. Folder 21. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 53-68 Box 2. Folder 22. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 76-87 Box 2. Folder 23. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 109-110 Box 2. Folder 24. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 111-128 Box 2. Folder 25. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 129-130 Box 2. Folder 26. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 131-136, book 2 title page, pg. 138-142 Box 2. Folder 27. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 139 Box 2. Folder 28. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 143-147 Box 2. Folder 29. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 158-163 Box 2. Folder 30. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 158, 13 unpaginated pages, pg. 174-176 Box 2. Folder 31. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, edited typescript carbon, pgs. 177 Box 2. Folder 32. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, lightly edited typescript carbon, pgs. 25-50 Box 2. Folder 33. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript carbon, pgs. 1-8 Box 2. Folder 34. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript carbon, pgs. 9-24 Box 2. Folder 35. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript carbon, pgs. 13-16 Box 2. Folder 36. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, typescript carbon, half-page, page with numerical notations Box 2. Folder 37. The Old Beauty and Others, "The Best Years," manuscript, half-pages, fragments, pgs. 28, 30, 32 Box 2. Folder 38. The Old Beauty and Others, "Lesley and Her Brother (The Best Years)," edited typescript, pgs. 1-42 Box 2. Folder 39. The Old Beauty and Others, "The Best Years," edited typescript carbon, pgs. 1-42 Box 2. Folder 40. The Old Beauty and Others, "Before Breakfast," edited typescript carbon, pgs. 1-17 Box 3. Folder 1. "The Old Beauty," edited typescript carbon, title page, pgs. 1-48, envelope Box 3. Folder 2. "Best Stories of Sarah Orne Jewett," typescript Box 3. Folder 3. "My First Novels" edited typescript carbon, hand paginated, pgs. 51-54, The Colophon, 1931 Box 3. Folder 4. "My First Novels," typescript, broadside Box 3. Folder 5. Willa Cather On Writing, "On the Art of Fiction," typescript, "written for the 1920 'Borzoi'" on second page. Box 3. Folder 6. Willa Cather On Writing, "On the Art of Fiction, "The Borzoi, 1920, edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 54A-56, pg. 1-2 Box 3. Folder 7. Willa Cather On Writing, "Light on Adobe Walls," manuscript, pgs. 1-6 Box 3. Folder 8. Willa Cather On Writing, "Light on Adobe Walls, ""On the Art of Fiction," typescript carbons, in folder with note, "Just from Miss Bloom May 22" Box 3. Folder 9. Willa Cather On Writing, "Light on Adobe Walls," edited typescript, hand paginated, pgs. 63A-65 Box 3. Folder 10. Willa Cather On Writing, Four Letters, edited typescript, hand paginated, title page, pgs. 3-9, 11-20, 20A-26A, 27-50A Box 3. Folder 11. "Four Letters," forward, edited typescript Box 3. Folder 12. "On Writing" typescript, 1936, Apr. 17 Box 3. Folder 13. "The Room Beyond A Foreword on Willa Cather," edited typescript Box 3. Folder 14. "The Room Beyond A Foreword on Willa Cather," typescript carbon, 1 page Box 3. Folder 15. "On Writing" edited typescript, page proofs, 1949 (see Cather oversize box 1) Box 3. Folder 16. "The Novel Démeublé" typescript, 1922 Box 3. Folder 17. Europe, typescript, 1902 Box 3. Folder 18. Willa Cather in Europe edited typescript, pgs. 25-26 Box 3. Folder 19. Willa Cather in Europe, lightly edited typescript, pgs. 29-30, 1956 Box 3. Folder 20. "The Professor's House," typescript fragment Box 3. Folder 21. "Sigrid Undset" edited typescript, pgs. 1-4, typescript carbon, pgs. 1-4 Urd, 1946, Nov. 9 Box 3. Folder 22. On criticism(?), typescript, undated Box 3. Folder 23. Hard Punishments, manuscript, pgs. 35-38 Box 3. Folder 24. Hard Punishments, manuscript, notes, 3 pages Box 3. Folder 25. Edited typescript, "Princeton Dinner" Box 3. Folder 26. "While she was fixing a room....," unidentified manuscript, pgs. 1-4 Box 3. Folder 27. "If through the lifted curtain....," unidentified lightly edited typescript poem Box 3. Folder 28. My Ántonia, lightly edited proof, pgs. 6-54 Box 3. Folder 29. My Ántonia, lightly edited proof, pgs. 55-126 Box 3. Folder 30. My Ántonia, lightly edited proof, pgs. 127-200 Box 3. Folder 31. My Ántonia, lightly edited proof, pgs. 201-293 Box 3. Folder 32. My Ántonia, lightly edited proof, pgs. 295-333, 335-358, fragments Box 3. Folder 33. "The Bohemian Girl" published photostat copy, McClure's Magazine, 39, pgs. 421-443, 1912, Apr. Box 3. Folder 34. Correspondence, regarding media rights, carbons, 1932-1947 Box 3. Folder 35. Correspondence, regarding media rights, carbons, 1932-1947, 1949, 1969, 1971, 1988 Box 3. Folder 36. Houghton Mifflin agreements, 1911-1915Item 1. Alexander's Bridge, 1911, Dec. 1 Item 2. O Pioneers!, 1913, Mar. 29 Item 3. The Song of the Lark, 1915, Apr. 16 Box 3. Folder 37. Houghton Mifflin agreements, 1937, 1948 Box 3. Folder 38. Knopf agreements, 1922, 1936, 1938Item 1. April Twilights 1922, Nov. 10 Item 2. Not Under Forty 1936, July 3 Item 3. The Song of the Lark (revised version) 1933, May 17 Box 3. Folder 39. Summary, Hard Punishments, one-page typescript Box 3. Folder 40. Review, Letter from W.C. Brownell to Miss Roseboro', about My Ántonia Box 3. Folder 41. Review, undated speech about My Ántonia Box 3. Folder 42. Review, "On Shadows on the Rock," review, edited typescript letter, to Governor Gross, 1 page, Saturday Review of Literature, 1931, Oct. 17 Box 3. Folder 43. Review, Youth and the Bright Medusa Box 3. Folder 44. "French thesis from Toulouse," typescript carbon, title page, pgs. 1-21, bibliography, pgs. 123-124, with translation 1937, June 23

Noted in Cather's hand as "French thesis...," with the original title as "Les Femmes Dans Les Romans de Willa Cather."

Box 4. Folder 1. Thesis, "Women in Cather's Romances," 1937 Box 4. Folder 2. Typescript carbon, "Principaux Personages...," undated Box 4. Folder 3. Reviews, translations Box 4. Folder 4. Article, "Chronique des livres," 1924 Box 4. Folder 5. Teleplay, "Paul's Case," undated Box 4. Folder 6. Contributions list, Nebraska State Journal, 1902 Box 4. Folder 7. Typescript lists, translations Box 4. Folder 8. Handwritten lists, translations Box 4. Folder 9. Brochures, Willa Cather, A Biographical Sketch... Knopf, volume with marginalia, fragments, 1926 Box 4. Folder 10. Programs, Cather events, 1963, 1973 Box 4. Folder 11. Magazine, McClure's, 1910 Box 4. Folder 12. Magazine, Smart Set, 1920 Box 4. Folder 13. Magazine, McClure's, 1922, Nov. Box 4. Folder 14. Programs, Cather events, 1963, 1973
Series 3: Personal MaterialsBox 4. Folder 11. Record book, 1910s

A record book of 182 lined pages. The initial four pages include pasted down newspaper clippings, a hand drawn map of Blue Mesa with buildings drawn in and identified, and a clipping with the notice of G.P. Cather's death. On page 42 is an attached list of forms of various names typed on letterhead from the Department of Slavonic Languages and Literatures at the University of Nebraska. Two additional pages have titles written at the top of the page, with the first, "Sunday on the Seine," crossed out and the second with the title "G.P.'s Story." The record book was turned upside down and the back page includes a stanza of writing in Cather's hand with the first line reading "Tree of half-hearted deeds and first beginnings." Pasted on the back inside cover of the book are published pages of arias from Madame Butterfly. Inserted into the back cover are several sheets of letterhead from The Shattuck Inn, Jaffrey, New Hampshire. Multiple pages have been torn out of the record book.

Box 4. Folder 12. Record book, 1920-1945

The record book includes financial records kept by Cather. The initial entries are listed as "Money Given Away" starting in 1930 and ending in 1944. Entries from 1924 through 1940 note deposits or checks from her publishers, banks, and royalties from her books, including Wyoming Trust Co., Union Trust Co., of Pittsburgh, Houghton Mifflin, Alfred Knopf and others. Bank letters or invoices are occasionally inserted into the book. In addition, a picture of Stephen Tennant is pasted on the inside front cover, along with genealogical information on his parents. Several newspaper clippings are inserted or pasted down throughout the book. Most of the entries are in Cather's hand, or may also be written by Edith Lewis.

Box 4. Folder 13. Composition book, 1924-1926(?)

The composition book has Edith Lewis's signature on the upper right-hand corner of the cover. The first four pages includes material written by Edith Lewis, including short notes on daily activities in Taos, New Mexico, and notes on names, places, and annual flowers found in Taos. Cather wrote a short story on the next four pages, titled "Party at .... " that later appeared in the novel Death Comes for the Archbishop. Later pages include Lewis's list in English and Spanish of questions, answers, and selected phrases. Two additional pages include Cather's on "Santa Fe 1840" and the "Navajo War."

Box 4. Folder 14. Record book, 1945-1947

In this book, Cather records income for 1945 and 1946 in the form of interest and royalties, interest on bonds, and deductions. In the book are handwritten or typed lists of savings, interest from government and municipal bonds, and dividends inserted at the page containing a summary total. Several additional items are inserted, including a list of securities at the time of Cather's death. Most of the entries are in Cather's hand, or may also be written by Edith Lewis.

Box 4. Folder 15. Notes, in Cather's handItem 1. Note, in Cather's hand, 6 lines on "experience" Item 2. Note with eight-line list beginning with "Baroque..." Item 3. Note, "Chamberlin 1928...." on one side, with "Beaujolais...." on the other Item 4. Published image, unidentified male author, with Cather note attached, "Please return this picture- it is taken from a scrapbook. Willa Cather." Item 5. Note, Dr. Howard C. Tayler address Box 4. Folder 16. Typescript, "The Poet," by Sir Philip Sidney, in Cather's hand on recto, "important Philip Sidney" Box 4. Folder 17. Engagements calendar, 1939

The calendar served as an appointment book for Cather, with brief, single word entries written in Cather's hand. She recorded appointments or visits with individuals such as McCreery, Yehudi Menuhin, Father Shehan, and Myra Hess, doctor's appointments, massages, haircuts and shampoos, trips to the bank or library, notes about writing to someone, and other general activities. A newspaper clipping on Kamil Ondrak's death in Omaha, Nebraska, and the burial of Queen Marie of Romania were inserted into the calendar.

Box 4. Folder 18. Engagements calendar, 1946

As with the 1939 calendar, this one served as an appointment book for Cather, with brief, single word entries written in Cather's hand. She recorded appointments to the dentist, tea visits, or reminders to write someone. The calendar includes entries from Oct. 20 until Dec. 21, then Dec. 29 through Jan. 1, 1947. The entries for Dec. 13 and 14 were torn from the page. The piece was attached to the first week of Jan. 1947, in the next engagement calendar. The rest of the pages for the year have been removed.

Box 4. Folder 19. Engagements calendar, 1947

As with the previous calendars from 1939 and 1946, this one served as an appointment book for Cather, with brief, single word entries written in Cather's hand, noting appointments to the dentist, when to telephone someone, or when to sign letters. Attached on the page for the first week of Jan. 1947 were the entries for Dec. 13, 14, 1946, torn from the page in the 1946 notebook. Several entries each week for the month of April is the word "liver." The last entry is on April 26th.

Box 4. Folder 20. Address book

Along with addresses, receipts, business cards, appointment cards, and loose pages with addresses are inserted into the address book. A date for 1915 and for 1922 and 1923 on a page under "V" show possible dates for the use of the book. The last pages that are not associated with a letter of the alphabet include notes about hotels, medicine, and on one page, some Russian proverbs, along with additional addresses.

Box 4. Folder 21. Address book

This second address book is the same type as the previous one, though less worn. The same type of materials are represented and inserted or pasted down throughout. On the front page with the letter "A" is a correction for Death Comes to the Archbishop. Two dates for the year 1943 appear on entries under the letter "B," which may indicate the possible use dates for the address book. The majority of the address book is empty. On the page for "O" are listed page numbers for One of Ours, with page numbers listed under "P" for Professor's House. On the first page for "S" is a list of changes for Shadows on the Rock.

Box 4. Folder 22. Pittsburgh Teachers' Institute Member's Ticket, W.S. Cather, in envelope addressed to Miss Willa Cather, postmarked Dec. 12, 1901 Box 4. Folder 23. Prescription, France, 1930, Cather's French passport, 1920 Box 4. Folder 24. Newspaper clippings, with Cather's note to "please return" undated

Includes a mention of Swedish reviews of Cather in the Chicago Daily News, and pictures of Olive Fremstad from the New York Times. Includes a fragment titled "Department of Tactics," obituary, "Dr. Sterns, Formerly Here, Dies," and an image from the New York Times, Nov. 27, 1945, captioned "Opera Season Opens at the Metropolitan with the First Lady Among the Audience."

Box 4. Folder 25. Labeled envelopes, some in Cather's hand (see Cather oversize box 1) Box 4. Folder 26. Musical score, "Swedish Mother," hand-written by Ethel Herr Jones Litchfield, circa 1921 Box 4. Folder 27. Cather estate documents, 1943-1950
Series 4: Family MaterialsBox 5. Folder 1. Notebook, Mary Virginia Boak, 1867-1870 Box 5. Folder 2. Notebook, to Mary Virginia (Jennie) Boak Cather from Charles F. Cather, 1871, Jan. 11-1871, Nov. 22, 1872, Mar. 9 Box 5. Folder 3. Notebook, enclosed items, 1868-1883, undated Box 5. Folder 4. Essays, poetry, Mary Virginia Boak, undated Box 5. Folder 5. Correspondence, to "Jennie," Mary Virginia Boak, 1868, 1869, undated Box 5. Folder 6. Certificate, Charles F. Cather, Notary Public, 1894, Mar. 2 Box 5. Folder 7. Cather family estate papers, 1919-1946 Box 5. Folder 8. Correspondence, Roscoe Cather, 1907-1944 Box 5. Folder 9. Correspondence, James, John Cather to Charles F. Cather, 1922, 1923, undated Box 5. Folder 10. Correspondence, James and Ethel Cather, 1932-1963 Box 5. Folder 11. Correspondence, James and Ethel Cather, diploma (copy), 1906, 1973-197, (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 5. Folder 12. Identification cards and certificates, James, Ethel, and Helen Cather, 1918-1920, 1937, undated Box 5. Folder 13. Typescript, Notes, Ethel Garber from Red Cloud High School and University of Nebraska, 1909-1915 Box 5. Folder 14. Correspondence, Elsie Cather, and details of Elsie's house after her death, 1938-1964 Box 5. Folder 15. Postcard, to Jack (John) Cather from Jennie Cather, 1908(?) Box 5. Folder 16. Postcards, Helen Cather Southwick, circa 1924, 1951 Box 5. Folder 17. Wedding announcement, Helen Cather Southwick, 1942 Box 5. Folder 18. Business records, Southwest Development, 1908 Box 5. Folder 19. Business records, James Cather, 1910-1966 Box 5. Folder 20. Photographs, construction sites, 1938 Box 5. Folder 21. Estate records, Douglass Cather, 1934-1938 Box 5. Folder 22. Family business correspondence, 1919-1938 Box 6. Folder 1. Business records, 1939-1941 Box 6. Folder 2. Business records, 1942 Box 6. Folder 3. Business records, 1943 Box 6. Folder 4. Business records, 1944-1949 Box 6. Folder 5. Business records, 1950-2010 Box 6. Folder 6. Business records, Beverly Montebello Oil, 1938, 1940-1941 Box 6. Folder 7. Business records, Ocean Front Oil Co., 1933-1938 Box 6. Folder 8. Ledger, oil leases, 1928-1957 Box 6. Folder 9. Cather estate correspondence, 1961-1986 Box 6. Folder 10. Cather estate correspondence, 1987-2007 Box 6. Folder 11. Document, Mohler-Garber family history, 1921 Box 6. Folder 12. Typescript, "Prairie Episode," Garber family story by Robert Hayes, 1971 Box 6. Folder 13. Announcements, Weddings, Funerals, Garber family, Box 7. Folder 1. Correspondence, Charles E. Cather, 1941-1975 Box 7. Folder 2. Correspondence, Charles E. Cather, 1978-2007, undated Box 7. Folder 3. Correspondence, Ethel Herr Litchfield, Isabelle Hambourg, 1961, undated Box 7. Folder 4. Correspondence, Ella Lewis, 1963-1964, undated Box 7. Folder 5. Correspondence regarding Whale Cove Cottage, 1965(?) Box 7. Folder 6. Military and school records, Charles E. Cather, 1943-1951 Box 7. Folder 7. Passport, permit, Charles E. Cather, 1950 Series 5: Edith LewisBox 7. Folder 8. Correspondence, Edith Lewis to Charles E. Cather, undated Box 7. Folder 9. Correspondence, Lewis, E.K. Brown, 1948-1949 Box 7. Folder 10. Correspondence, Lewis, E.K. Brown, 1950 Box 7. Folder 11. Correspondence, Lewis, E.K. Brown, undated Box 7. Folder 12. Correspondence, Lewis, Leon Edel, 1952-1953, 1962 Box 7. Folder 13. Correspondence, Lewis, Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1951-1953 Box 7. Folder 14. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1911 Box 7. Folder 15. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1915-1916 Box 7. Folder 16. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster (damaged), 1916 Box 7. Folder 17. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1923-1927, undated Box 7. Folder 18. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1930-1935 Box 7. Folder 19. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1936-1939 Box 7. Folder 20. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1940-1945 Box 8. Folder 1. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1946-1949 Box 8. Folder 2. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1950-1952 Box 8. Folder 3. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, 1953-1956 Box 8. Folder 4. Correspondence, Lewis, Brewster, undated Box 8. Folder 5. Correspondence, Lewis, Menuhin, 1930-1939 Box 8. Folder 6. Correspondence, Lewis, Menuhin, 1940-1949 Box 8. Folder 7. Correspondence, Lewis, Menuhin, 1950-1959 Box 8. Folder 8. Correspondence, Lewis, Menuhin, 1960-1961 Box 8. Folder 9. Correspondence, Lewis, Menuhin, undated Box 8. Folder 10. Publications, about Menuhin, 1932, 1951 Box 8. Folder 11. Correspondence, Lewis, E. De Long, 1937-1939 Box 8. Folder 12. Correspondence, Lewis, New York Public Library, 1947, 1953 Box 8. Folder 13. Correspondence, Lewis, encyclopedias, etc., 1947, 1952 Box 8. Folder 14. Correspondence, Lewis, Houghton Mifflin, 1947-1964 Box 8. Folder 15. Correspondence, Lewis, 1939-1949 Box 8. Folder 16. Correspondence, Lewis, 1950-1952 Box 8. Folder 17. Correspondence, Lewis, 1953 Box 9. Folder 1. Correspondence, Lewis, 1954-1955 Box 9. Folder 2. Correspondence, Lewis, 1956-1959 Box 9. Folder 3. Correspondence, Lewis, 1961-1964 Box 9. Folder 4. Correspondence, Lewis, undated Box 9. Folder 5. Correspondence, Lewis, fragments, undated Box 9. Folder 6. Identity card, Edith Lewis, 1920 Box 9. Folder 7. Calendar, "notes for biography," 1945

The calendar entries are written by Edith Lewis and cover pages from Jan. 12 through Mar. 2, outlining Cather's life from about 1892 until 1910. The pages from Mar. 3-24 have been removed, leaving partial pages with incomplete notes.

Box 9. Folder 8. Notebook, Edith Lewis, "letter to Mr. Brown on religion," undated Box 9. Folder 9. Notebook, Lewis(?), Grand Manan(?), undated Box 9. Folder 10. Engagements calendar, 1964

Includes very few entries and some addresses

Box 9. Folder 11. Notebook fragment, W.B. "Yeats's Diary of 1908-12," Box 9. Folder 12. Notes, "Willa Cather - notes for Mr. Brown" Box 9. Folder 13. Typescript time line 1943-1946, pgs. 14-15 Box 9. Folder 14. Article, Edith Lewis corrected copy, "A Chance Meeting, " The Atlantic Box 9. Folder 15. Notes, on Cather by Lewis(?) for Willa Cather Living(?) Box 9. Folder 16. Revised proof, Stephen Tennant, My Brother Aquarius, 1961 Box 9. Folder 17. Press release, E.K. Brown biography, 1953 Box 9. Folder 18. Society Library list, Lewis, E.K. Brown, undated Box 9. Folder 19. Supplement to the Carmelite, D.H. Lawrence, 1930, Mar. 19 Box 9. Folder 20. Estate correspondence, City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1947-1949 Box 9. Folder 21. Principle, income statements, City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1947-1949 Box 9. Folder 22. Securities receipts, City Bank Farmers Trust Company, 1947-1949 Box 9. Folder 23. Lewis, taxes, 1954 Box 9. Folder 24. Lewis, taxes, 1956 Box 9. Folder 25. Lewis, taxes, 1960 Box 9. Folder 26. Houghton Mifflin royalty statements, 1961
Series 6: PhotographsBox 10. Folder 1. Photographs, Willa Cather, 1890s Box 10. Folder 2. Photographs, Willa Cather, 1900, 1902, 1903-1906 (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 10. Folder 3. Photographs, Cather, by Aime Dupont Studio, ca. 1912 Box 10. Folder 4. Photograph, Willa Cather, by Wm. M. Hollinger, 1915 Box 10. Folder 5. Photographs, Willa Cather, Helen Cather Southwick, 1918, 1924 Box 10. Folder 6. Photographs, Cather, by Rinehart Marsden, 1921 (see also Cather oversize box 4) Box 10. Folder 7. Photographs, Willa Cather, 1920s Box 10. Folder 8. Photographs, Cather, garden portrait, Leon Bakst studio, by Henri Manuel, 1922, 1923, Oct. 1 (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 10. Folder 9. Photograph, Willa Cather, by Nickolas Muray, 1924 Box 10. Folder 10. Photographs, negatives, Willa Cather, Isabelle McClung Hambourg, 1924 Box 10. Folder 11. Photographs, Cather, by Edward Steichen, 1927 Box 10. Folder 12. Photographs, Cather, New York Times Book Review New York Times Studio, 1931 Box 10. Folder 13. Photographs, Cather, Charles F. Cather, Jennie Cather, Douglass Cather, 1928, undated Box 10. Folder 14. Photographs, Willa Cather, Cather family children, 1930s Box 10. Folder 15. Photographs, Cather, by Harry Foster Ensminger, 1936, Dec. 7 Box 10. Folder 16. Photographs, Cather, France Box 10. Folder 17. Photographs, Cather, New Mexico Box 10. Folder 18. Photographs, Cather, Grand Manan, unidentified landscape (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 10. Folder 19. Photographs, Cather, Jennie Cather, Virginia Cather, Mary Cather Auld Box 10. Folder 20. Photographs, Cather, published copies Box 10. Folder 21. Photographs, Edith Lewis Box 10. Folder 22. Photographs, Edith Lewis, Earl, Achsah, Harper Brewster Box 10. Folder 23. Photographs, Edith Lewis correspondence Box 10. Folder 24. Negatives, Cather, Paris, 1920s Box 10. Folder 25. Negatives, Cather, Grand Manan(?) Box 11. Folder 1. Engravings, James Cather (1795-1875), great-grandfather of Willa Cather, ca. 1860 Box 11. Folder 2. Photograph album, Charles F. Cather, Mary Virginia (Jennie) Boak Cather, 1850-1870 Box 11. Folder 3. Photographs, Charles F. Cather, ca.1900, undated Box 11. Folder 4. Photographs, Mary Virginia "Jennie" Boak Cather Box 11. Folder 5. Photographs, Charles F. Cather, Mary Virginia (Jennie) Boak Cather, ca. 1900 Box 11. Folder 6. Photographs, Roscoe Cather Box 11. Folder 7. Photographs, Roscoe, Elsie, John "Jack" Cather Box 11. Folder 8. Photographs, Virginia, Elizabeth, Margaret Cather Box 11. Folder 9. Photographs, Douglass Cather Box 11. Folder 10. Photographs, Jessica Cather Auld Box 11. Folder 11. Photographs, James Cather Box 11. Folder 12. Photographs, Elsie Cather Box 11. Folder 13. Photographs, John "Jack" Cather Box 12. Folder 1. Photographs, Ethel Garber Cather, 1909-1919 Box 12. Folder 2. Photographs, Ethel Garber Cather, 1920s Box 12. Folder 3. Photographs, James and Ethel Garber Cather, family, 1926, 1937, 1950s (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 12. Folder 4. Photographs, Helen Cather Southwick, photo album, 1918-1929 Box 12. Folder 5. Photographs, Helen Cather Southwick, 1918-1929 Box 12. Folder 6. Photographs, Helen Cather Southwick, 1933-1934 Box 12. Folder 7. Photographs, Helen Cather Southwick, 1930s Box 12. Folder 8. Photographs, Helen Cather, Philip Southwick, 1940s Box 12. Folder 9. Photographs, Helen Cather Southwick, Charles E. Cather, 1923, 1929 Box 12. Folder 10. Photographs, Charles E. Cather, 1923, 1929 Box 12. Folder 11. Photographs, Charles E. Cather, 1930s to 1950s Box 13. Folder 1. Scrapbook, photograph album, Charles E. Cather, S. S. Columbia, 1937-1944, 1950 (see Cather oversize box 1) Box 13. Folder 2. Photographs, Charles E. Cather, Nevada, 1930s, 1940s Box 13. Folder 3. Photographs, Willow Shade, ca. 1860 Box 13. Folder 4. Photographs, Geraldine Farrar Box 13. Folder 5. Photographs, Olive Fremstad Box 13. Folder 6. Photographs, Isabelle McClung Hambourg Box 13. Folder 7. Photographs, S.S. McClure Box 13. Folder 8. Photographs, Moshe Menuhin, with family Box 13. Folder 9. Photographs, Ethelbert, Anne Paul Nevin Box 13. Folder 10. Photographs, Anna Pavelka Box 13. Folder 11. Photographs, Nettie Provost Box 13. Folder 12. Photographs, Stephen Tennant, 1948 Box 13. Folder 13. Photographs, Charles Wiener Box 13. Folder 14. Photographs, inscribed to Cather, 1948 Box 13. Folder 15. Photographs, Silas Garber Box 13. Folder 16. Photographs, Garber family, 1895 Box 13. Folder 17. Photographs, various, identified Box 13. Folder 18. Photographs, various, unidentified Box 13. Folder 19. Photographs, various, unidentified Box 13. Folder 20. Photographs, Yeager's Band, Guide Rock, Nebraska Box 13. Folder 21. Photographs, Red Cloud, Nebraska, photo studios Box 14. Folder 1. Photographs, Superior, Nebraska, Clarinda, Iowa, photo studios, Garber family(?) Box 14. Folder 2. Portrait drawings, Wladyslaw Theodor Benda (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 14. Folder 3. Negatives, Helen Cather Southwick, Charles E. Cather Box 14. Folder 4. Postcard, University of Nebraska Box 14. Folder 5. Postcards, travel guides Box 14. Folder 6. Postcards, pamphlets Box 14. Folder 7. Photographs, unidentified Box 14. Folder 8. Photographs, unidentified, Garbers(?) Box 14. Folder 9. Photographs, unidentified Box 14. Folder 10. Photographs, unidentified Box 14. Folder 11. Photographs, unidentified Box 14. Folder 12. Photographs, unidentified, print by Wallace Nutting Box 15. Folder 1. Scrapbook, unidentified Box 15. Folder 2. Photographs, unidentified Box 15. Folder 3. Photographs, Pittsburgh, 1893-1905 Box 15. Folder 4. Photographs, oil wells, undated Box 15. Folder 5. Photographs, sculptures, painting, undated Box 15. Folder 6. Photograph, Italy, undated Series 7: Medals, ArtifactsBox 16. Folder 1. Autograph book, including Cather poem, 1890 Box 16. Folder 2. Medal, National Institute of Arts & Letters, 1930 Box 16. Folder 3. Medal, William Dean Howell, American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1930 Box 16. Folder 4. Medal, American Academy of Arts & Letters, 1938, Nov. 10 Box 16. Folder 5. Name stamps, Cather Box 16. Folder 6. Stationery, Cather Box 16. Folder 7. Wallet, Douglass Cather Box 17. Folder 1. Program, Carnegie Hall, 1908 Box 17. Folder 2. Poems, George Seibel, Book and Heart, inscribed to Elsie Cather, 1954 Box 17. Folder 3. Videocassette, The Song of the Lark, ca. 2001 Series 8: Newspaper ClippingsBox 18. Folder 1. Newspaper scrapbook, The Song of the Lark Box 18. Folder 2. Newspaper scrapbook, One of Ours Box 18. Folder 3. Newspaper scrapbook, Death Comes for the Archbishop Box 18. Folder 4. Newspaper scrapbook, Shadows on the Rock Box 18. Folder 5. Newspaper scrapbook, Lucy Gayheart Box 18. Folder 6. Newspaper scrapbook, Sapphira and the Slave Girl Box 18. Folder 7. Newspaper scrapbook, Obscure Destinies Box 18. Folder 8. Newspaper scrapbook, Willa Cather Living Box 18. Folder 9. Newspaper scrapbook, awards Box 18. Folder 10. Newspaper scrapbook, biographical Box 18. Folder 11. Newspaper scrapbook, general reviews Box 18. Folder 12. Newspaper scrapbook, interviews Box 18. Folder 13. Newspaper scrapbook, Nebraska Box 18. Folder 14. Newspaper scrapbook, photographs Box 18. Folder 15. Record book, newspaper clippings Box 18. Folder 16. Newspaper clippings, O Pioneers! Box 18. Folder 17. Newspaper clippings, My Ántonia Box 18. Folder 18. Newspaper clippings, The Professor's House Box 18. Folder 19. Newspaper clippings, My Mortal Enemy Box 18. Folder 20. Newspaper clippings, duplicates, Shadows on the Rock Box 18. Folder 21. Newspaper clippings, Youth and the Bright Medusa Box 18. Folder 22. Newspaper clippings, Obscure Destinies Box 18. Folder 23. Newspaper clippings, Not Under Forty Box 18. Folder 24. Newspaper clippings, The Old Beauty and Others Box 18. Folder 25. Newspaper clippings, English reviews Box 18. Folder 26. Newspaper clippings, foreign reviews Box 18. Folder 27. Newspaper clippings, general reviews Box 18. Folder 28. Newspaper clippings, golden wedding Box 18. Folder 29. Newspaper clippings, important Box 18. Folder 30. Newspaper clippings, various Box 18. Folder 31. Newspaper clippings, western Box 18. Folder 32. Newspaper clippings, duplicates Box 18. Folder 33. Article, on Cather, The New Republic, 1937 Box 18. Folder 34. Article, Mary Baker Eddy, McClure's Magazine, 1907 Box 18. Folder 35. Magazine clippings, 1920s Box 18. Folder 36. Magazine clippings, 1920s, 1940s Box 18. Folder 37. News clipping bundle, "Archbishop press" Box 18. Folder 38. News clipping bundle, "notices, Troll Garden, not read" Box 18. Folder 39. Empty envelope, with notes (see Cather oversize box 4) Box 19. Folder 1. News clipping bundle, "Cather Residence,""Century" Box 19. Folder 2. News clipping bundle, "Cather Residence,""Aberdeen" Box 19. Folder 3. News clipping bundle, "Olive residence, Long Beach,""Ex Libris" Box 20. Folder 1. News clipping bundle, "Olive residence, Long Beach,""All the news" Box 20. Folder 2. News clipping bundle,"Olive residence, Long Beach,""American Scandinavian Review" Box 20. Folder 3. Newspaper Webster County Argus, 1906 Box 20. Folder 4. Misc. news clippings, 1960s, 1980s Series 9: Douglass Cather CorrespondenceBox 21. Folder 1. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1931, 1933 Box 21. Folder 2. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1935, Jan.-May Box 21. Folder 3. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1935, June-Nov. Box 21. Folder 4. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1936 Box 21. Folder 5. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1937 Box 21. Folder 6. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, 1938 Box 21. Folder 7. Correspondence, to Douglass Cather, undated Box 21. Folder 8. Photograph, Oil well survey instrument, 1933 Box 21. Folder 9. Photographs, Douglass Cather, 1937 Box 21. Folder 10. Photographs, Cabo, Mexico, undated Box 21. Folder 11. Journals, Douglass Cather, 1904-1916, 1916-1919 Box 21. Folder 12. Business records, daybooks, pocketbook, Douglass Cather,
Related Material and Resources: Earl and Achsah Brewster's correspondence, a memoir by Achsah and another by their daughter Harwood Brewster Picard are located at Drew University, Madison, New Jersey. See the Willa Cather Collection. The papers of E.K. Brown, author of Willa Cather: A Critical Biography, are located at Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, New Haven, Connecticut. See the E.K. Brown Collection of Willa Cather.



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