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Mari Sandoz Collection

Title: Mari Sandoz Collection

Creator: Sandoz, Mari, 1896-1966

Dates: 1864-1976 (bulk 1931-1966)

Quantity: 199 boxes (186 linear feet)

Collection Number: MS 0080

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Other Finding Aids: For a complete list of Sandoz materials available via microfilm, please see the Mari Sandoz Collection, which provides access to the microfilm indexing.Container List: Box 4. Correspondence, 1936, Aug.-1937, Nov. [Microfilm Reel MS00007]Item Mae Manion to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 3 [frame 7.4-13]

Regarding Sandhills life and weather; Manion's family and personal memories; Alliance, Nebraska.

Item Marcel Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 8 [frame 7.20]

Regarding a visit to Nebraska; looking up relatives; introduction.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Connolly, 1936, Aug. 11 [frame 7.21]

Regarding Old Jules; a "new novel" has been sent to the publisher, Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Marcel Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 12 [frame 7.25]]

Response to Marcel's letter of August 8, 1936; Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1936, Aug. 12 [frame 7.26]

Regarding return to Lincoln; beginning work on the Cheyennes; research for the book; a Sioux biography.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1936, Aug. 18 [frame 7.36]

Regarding placing some short stories in magazines.

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 20 [frame 7.39]

Regarding handling Sandoz's "magazine material;" representation of writers.

Item Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 20 [frame 7.41]

Regarding Sidney Harmon; E.P. Conkle; dramatic rights to Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to John P. Carruth, 1936, Aug. 21 [frame 7.44-45]

Regarding cosmopolitanism; really "looking" at things; writing of sensitive, submerged souls; information about Mary Sandoz; Mari's mother, responses to Carruth's questions.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Howard, 1936, Aug. 21 [frame 7.46]

Regarding the writing of Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1936, Aug. 22 [frame 7.50]

Regarding dramatic rights to Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1936, Aug. 23 [frame 7.52]

Regarding short fiction works; handling Sandoz's magazine material.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Gloor, 1936, Aug. 23 [frame 7.53]

Regarding Old Jules; getting published; editorial decisions made; choice of subject matter; mentions Sandoz's short fiction published so far.

Item Professor Ernst Marx, 1936, Aug. 25 [frame 7.59-60]

Regarding George Washington Memorial Library in Stuttgart.

Item Mari Sandoz to C.K. Morse, 1936, Aug. 25 [frame 7.63]

Regarding rural teachers in mid Nebraska; education in Nebraska; libraries.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1936, Aug. 26 [frame 7.73]

Regarding dramatic rights to Old Jules.

Item Jeanette Cloud, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Aug. 28 [frame 7.83]

Regarding Slogum House has arrived at the publisher.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1936, Aug. 30 [frame 7.84]

Regarding foreign rights to Old Jules.

Item Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 1 [frame 7.87]

Regarding response to Sandoz's letters of August 26 and August 30.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1936, Sept. 2 [frame 7.92]

Regarding dramatic rights to Old Jules; foreign publishing; Slogum House carbon.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Boake Carter, C.B.S. radio, 1936, Sept. 13 [frame 7.112]

Regarding politics; elections.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 17 [frame 7.115-117]

Regarding thoughts on Slogum House; requests Sandoz come to Boston to discuss the book, criticisms of Slogum House and characters in the book.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1936, Sept. 19 [frame 7.123-124]

Regarding Sandoz's response to Week's criticisms of Slogum House; "Eastern" readers; Sandoz's opinions of the book before revisions; Sandoz declines the invitation to go to Boston.

Item Ralph Budd to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 21 [frame 7.125]

Regarding Mormons' arrival on Missouri River.

Item Pamphlet about Mormons, undated [frame 7.128-133] Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. T.B. Bowen, 1936, Sept. 22 [frame 7.134]

Regarding Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to Vernon N. Couzemius, 1936, Sept. 22 [frame 7.135]

Regarding Jules Ami Sandoz stamp collections.

Item Mari Sandoz to R.L. Eslinger, 1936, Sept. 22 [frame 7.136]

Regarding hunting in Cherry County, Nebraska.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 22 [frame 7.137-138]

Regarding more criticisms and suggestions for Slogum House.

Item Paul Hoffman, Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 23 [frame 7.139-140]

Regarding Slogum House; criticisms and suggestions for the book; comparison to Return of the Native.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ralph Budd, 1936, Sept. 23 [frame 7.144-146]

Regarding Mormons; Kanesville, IA; Council Bluffs, IA; Lewis & Clark; fur traders.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1936, Sept. 24 [frame 7.151-152]

Regarding Mormon trek; Hoffman's work.

Item Ralph Budd to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Sept. 26 [frame 7.153]

Regarding Thomas Kane; Mormons; Minnesota State Historical Society.

Item Telegram from Jaques Chambrum to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 1 [frame 7.160]

Regarding "White Meteor" accepted by Ladies Home Journal.

Item William Fasthorse to John Collier, Indian Commissioner, 1936, Oct. 5 [frame 7.166]

Regarding the new "Indian Bill;" laboring as a ranch-hand in Nebraska; loan request.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lila Katherine, 1936, Oct. 5 [frame 7.168]

Regarding plagarism.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 5 [frame 7.169-170]

Regarding Slogum House, criticisms and suggestions and revisions.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1936, Oct. 8 [frame 7.172]

Regarding "The White Meteor."

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 10 [frame 7.175-178]

Regarding Hooker's new Florida home; old days in the Sandhills of Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. J. Amos Barrett, 1936, Oct. 12 [frame 7.180]

Regarding the death of J. Amos Barrett.

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz , 1936, Oct. 17 [frame 7.188]

Regarding Sandoz's short stories "Bachelor Stork Party;" "River Polack"

Item Fred Gloor to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 18 [frame 7.189-191]

Regarding writing, publishing, Sandoz's stories and their meaning for Mr. Gloor.

Item Anne Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 21 [frame 7.194-196]

Regarding ascertaining the family relationship; places of residence; greetings.

Item Mari Sandoz to the daughter of James Manahan, 1936, Oct. 24 [frame 7.198]

Regarding midwestern character; families of the midwest; politics.

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Oct. 28 [frame 7.202]

Regarding obscure language in "River Polack."

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1936, Oct. 30 [frame 7.208]

Regarding Sandoz's response to Chambrun's criticism of her short stories; language in "River Polack."

Item Mari Sandoz to the students of Garrett City Schools, 1936, Nov. 3 [frame 7.215]

Regarding the importance of good books; reading.

Item Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Nov. 11 [frame 7.227]

Regarding English publication of Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1936, Nov. 12 [frame 7.230]

Regarding "River Polack;" "Devil's Lane."

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Nov. 19 [frame 7.237-238]

Regarding response to Sandoz's revisions in "River Polack", "The Devil's Lane."

Item G.W. Norris, United States Senator to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Nov. 19

Regarding greetings, thanks.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard DeVoto, 1936, Nov. 23 [frame 7.241]

Regarding "New Jerusalem;" Mormon's statue at "Winter Questers."

Item J.A. Hill to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Nov. 29 [frame 7.252-254]

Regarding Sandhills life in the late 1800s; Sheridan County, Nebraska; homesteading in the Sandhills; Rushville, Nebraska; families in the Sandhills.

Item Bernard DeVoto to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Nov. 30 [frame 7.255]

Regarding Mormon's Winter Quarters; Sandoz's writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ruth Daum, 1936, Dec. 3 [frame 7.257]

Regarding Sandoz's recent trip to the Sandhills

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Plantz, 1936, Dec. 10 [frame 7.273]

Regarding Old Jules gun, a Vetterli; Jim Humbert.

Item Mari Sandoz to Collier Young, 1936, Dec. 10 [frame 7.274]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Telegram from J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 12 [frame 7.279]

Regarding Ladies Home Journal accepts "The Devil's Lane."

Item Marie K. Cosner to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 16 [frame 7.289]

Regarding Sandozs short stories "White Meteor" and "Mists, And A Tall White Tower;" publishing through prizes.

Item A.C. Plantz to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 16 [frame 7.292]

Regarding Old Jule's gun; the Vetterli

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard DeVoto, 1936, Dec. 22 [frame 7.307-309]

Regarding dedication of the Statue at Winter Quarters; Mormon pioneers; Missouri River; fur trade; the era of the mid-1800s.

Item Pan Sterling to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 22 [frame 7.310]

Regarding writing and reading fiction.

Item Mari Sandoz to Weldon Kees, 1936, Dec. 24 [frame 7.312]

Notes after reading Slow Parade.

Item Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 27 [frame 7.317-320]

Regarding Old Jules; French's life and family; homesteaders vs. ranchers.

Item Fritz Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 30 [frame 7.325]

Regarding telegram about visiting Washington, D.C.

Item Fritz Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1936, Dec. 30 [frame 7.326-327]

Regarding Mari's upcoming visit to Washington, D.C., presidential inauguration.

Item Mari Sandoz to editorial offices of Harcourt Brace, 1936, Dec. 30 [frame 7.328]

Regarding Weldon Kees; Slow Parade.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1936 [frame 7.353-366]

Regarding art and artists; Pan Sterling; San Antonio trip; writing; Dorothy Thomas; Louise Pound; limericks; common friends and aquaintances.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1936 [frame 7.371]

Regarding the Olive-Mitchell hearings at Clay County, Nebraska.

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz, 1936 [frame 7.381-404]

Regarding common friends and acquaintances; Lincoln social scene and University news of 1936.

Item Pan Sterling to Mari Sandoz, 1936 [frame 7.432]

Regarding Chambrun sells one of Sterling's short stories; loan of money.

Item Judge Louis Lightener to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 3 [frame 7.447]

Regarding Slogum House; description in writing; ideas for the "next" novel.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dr. John Ise, 1937, Jan. 3 [frame 7.449]

Regarding Sod & Stabble, Kansas.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1937, Jan. 4 [frame 7.452]

Regarding a trip to New York City; research; New Dealers.

Item Bernard DeVoto to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 8 [frame 7.457]

Regarding suggestion Sandoz write an article about Mormons.

Item Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 8 [frame 7.458]

Regarding Old Jules sold in England.

Item Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Feldhausen, 1937, Jan. 11 [frame 7.463]

Regarding photograph of Mari Sandoz.

Item Peggy Benjamin to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 13 [frame 7.469-471]

Regarding writing history; Nebraska writers; getting published; Bess Streeter Aldrich.

Item Mari Sandoz to J.A. Hill, 1937, Jan. 13 [frame 7.474-475]

Regarding Wyoming; Crazy Horse; settlers.

Item Mrs. Josephine Waggoner to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 13 [frame 7.481-482]

Regarding Bettelyoun manuscript; Cheyenne "troubles."

Item Mari Sandoz to Harrison B. French, 1937, Jan. 14 [frame 7.489]

Regarding Old Jules; writing one's family history

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Ferry Smith, 1937, Jan. 14 [frame 7.496]

Regarding Lone Pine, Nebraska; writing of the norther tier of Nebraska; local publishing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Jan. 15 [frame 7.499]

Regarding Sandoz's research trip to Washington, D.C. and New York City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Peggy Benjamin, 1937, Jan. 16 [frame 7.502-503]

Regarding writers; Nebraska writers; being a "liberal;" publishing hardships.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard DeVoto, 1937, Jan. 16 [frame 7.505]

Regarding Mormon article.

Item Mari Sandoz to W.A. Stolley, 1937, Jan. 16 [frame 7.510]

Regarding Sandhills hunting.

Item May L. Hones to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 18 [frame 7.512]

Regarding Mr. W.A. Stolley.

Item M.I. McCreight to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 18 [frame 7.515]

Regarding Chief Flying Hawks Tales.

Item Mari Sandoz to Amy Loveman, Saturday Review of Literature, 1937, Jan. 18 [frame 7.516]

Regarding Keith Sophus Winther.

Item Lewis Schwager to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 18 [frame 7.519-520]

Regarding Slogum House; harvesting crops in the "old days;" farming accidents.

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 19 [frame 7.524]

Regarding Sandoz's next book; more history about northwestern Nebraska.

Item Harcourt, Brace & Company to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 20 [frame 7.529]

Regarding Weldon Kee's book, Slow Parade.

Item Mari Sandoz to Adolf Zukor, Paramount, 1937, Jan. 23 [frame 7.544-545]

Regarding historical innaccuracies in the motion picture "The Plainsman."

Item W.A. Stolley to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 26 [frame 7.554-556]

Regarding publishing his father's writings.

Item May Hones to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Jan. 27 [frame 7.556-557]

Regarding W.A. Stolley; family story.

Item Mari Sandoz to M.I. McCreight, 1937, Jan. 27 [frame 7.563-564]

Regarding Chief Flying Hawk's Tales; writing of Indians; Big Foot; Pine Ridge in 1930; He Dog.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ann Gunnar, 1937, Feb. 1 [frame 7.569]

Regarding Sandoz's earliest writing; pen names; encouragement for young writers.

Item Frank S. Fair to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Feb. 3 [frame 7.576]

Regarding pioneering in Nebraska; Omaha, Nebraska; George Francis Train, first mayor of Omaha.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Eli Brown, 1937, Feb. 6 [frame 7.580-581]

Regarding Sandoz family history; genealogy.

Item Mari Sandoz to "Pizen" Bill Hooker, 1937, Feb. 9 [frame 7.589]

Regarding Eastern publishers; the "Julesburg" story; Sandoz's plans for future writings.

Item Mari Sandoz to Letitia Bolton, 1937, Feb. 10 [frame 7.594]

Regarding letter from an unknown source; prison psychology.

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Feb. 12-13 [frame 7.599-608]

Several letters regarding the writing and publishing of history; Hooker's own writings; writing of the West; Hooker requests Sandoz write his biography

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Feb. 15 [frame 7.613-616]

Regarding trying to convince Sandoz to write his biography.

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Feb. 16 [frame 7.618]

Regarding Bull whacking; swearing; old friends of Hooker's.

Item Mari Sandoz to "Pizen" Bill Hooker, 1937, Feb. 17 [frame 7.619-620]

Regarding Eastern publishing; killers; she suggests he write his own autobiography; Sandoz's correspondence; Indian culture; Man Afraid of His Horse.

Item "Pizen" Bill Hooker to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Feb. 20 [frame 7.624-628]

Regarding more tales of his life and times.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chaloner Prize Foundation, 1937, Feb. 22 [frame 7.633]

Regarding artist Morrison Gordon.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Feb. 24 [frame 7.634]

Regarding Book of the Month Club; poets; works of the midwest; Eudora Kohl's work; Eastern audiences vs. Western audiences.

Item Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 3 [frame 7.644-645]

Regarding the western life; Vida Belk; writing fiction; Old Jules; writing; criticism.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 4 [frame 7.646]

Regarding Eudora Kohl's work; Sandoz's new manuscript, Flight to the North.

Item Mari Sandoz to Julia McGillycudy, 1937, Mar. 6 [frame 7.654]

Regarding revisions for McGillycudy's manuscript about Valentine McGillycudy.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Twin, 1937, Mar. 6 [frame 7.655]

Regarding a photograph rumored to be Crazy Horse.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Mar. 8 [frame 7.656]

Regarding writing of the Cheyennes.

Item Ed Weeks to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 11 [frame 7.662]

Regarding Flight to the North; planning for publication.

Item Mari Sandoz to Marion Hall, Office of Indian Affairs, 1937, Mar. 15 [frame 7.667]

Regarding Indians at Work; Sandoz's interest in "new" Indians.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Mar. 15 [frame 7.668]

Regarding working and researching for the "Cheyenne book;" Sandoz's research in Oklahoma; Slogum House; problems at Atlantic.

Item Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 17 [frame 7.669]

Old Jules published in England.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Howell Morgan, 1937, Mar. 18 [frame 7.673]

Regarding Bartlett Richards; Pine Ridge, 1890-1891; Julia McGillycudy; writing of the Ghost Dance "troubles."

Item Alfred McIntyre, Little Brown and Company to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 19 [frame 7.674-675]

Regarding Slogum House; editing policies.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1937, Mar. 20 [frame 7.676]

Regarding short stories; Dorothy Thomas; Pan Sterling; marketing her short stories; her association with Jacques Chambrun.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred R. McIntyre, Little, Brown and Company, 1937, Mar. 22 [frame 7.679-682]

Regarding Slogum House; her reliability as a researcher; publishing problems; objections to her work.

Item Julia McGillycudy to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Mar. 24 [frame 7.685]

Regarding books about the West; Calamity Jane; writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Ballard, 1937, Apr. 5 [frame 7.702]

Regarding Ballard's play "The Senator's Husband."

Item Mari Sandoz to Jakob Hablitzel, 1937, Apr. 5 [frame 7.703]

Regarding Denver Schlatterer, self proclamined messiah.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Apr. 5 [frame 7.709]

Old Jules and Atlantis-Verlag in Zurich.

Item Josephine Waggoner to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Apr. 5 [frame 7.710]

Regarding Bettelyoun manuscript.

Item Alfred McIntyre, Little, Brown and Company to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Apr. 6 [frame 7.712-713]

Regarding Slogum House and revisions.

Item Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Apr. 7 [frame 7.715]

Regarding original Old Jules manuscript.

Item Alfred McIntyre to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Apr. 10 [frame 7.718]

Regarding Old Jules in Germany; Atlantis-Verlag.

Item Mari Sandoz to Tunny Gray, 1937, Apr. 11 [frame 7.722-723]

Regarding a book about Abraham Lincoln; Civil War.

Item Mari Sandoz to Letitia Bolton, 1937, Apr. 20 [frame 7.737]

Regarding the "Lincoln Murder book;" Sandozs research on Cheyennes.

Item Mari Sandoz to Josephine Waggoner, 1937, Apr. 20 [frame 7.742]

Regarding Bettelyoun photos; Sheldon's plans for publication.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bernard DeVoto, 1937, Apr. 27 [frame 7.744]

Regarding Sandoz's article finished for Saturday Review in Literature.

Item Alfred McIntyre, Little, Brown and Company to Mari Sandoz, 1937, May 7 [frame 7.754]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1937, May 8 [frame 7.755]

Regarding "River Polack" accepted by Ed Weeks.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, May 10 [frame 7.756]

Regarding Chambrun and "River Polack."

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1937, May 11 [frame 7.758]

Regarding "River Polack" and Ed Weeks; Old Jules.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, May 11 [frame 7.759]

Regarding "River Polack;" revisions.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, May 13 [frame 7.761]

Regarding "River Polack;" revisions.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Montly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, May 13 [frame 7.762]

Regarding "River Polack;" short story; language in Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1937, May 20 [frame 7.768-769]

Regarding problems with Atlantic Press; writing; "River Polack;" Dorothy Thomas.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober, 1937, May 20 [frame 7.770]

Regarding making a movie of Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to Letitia Bolton, 1937, June 4 [frame 7.792-793]

Regarding writing, editing Slogum House; work on Cheyenne biography; Sandoz upcoming itinerary; Wimberly's Prairie Schooner.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chancellor E.A. Burnett, 1937, June 11 [frame 7.798]

Regarding praise for the Prairie Schooner; plea for help to keep the magazine going.

Item Jim Van Liew to Mari Sandoz, 1937, June 11 [frame 7.799-800]

Regarding Van Liew's impressions of Los Angeles, California; his writing; health problems; loan of money.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jim Van Liew, 1937, June 12 [frame 7.806-807]

Response to Van Liew's letter of June 11, 1937; Nebraska writers; Sandoz's impressions of California; loan of money.

Item Lewis Schwager to Mari Sandoz, 1937, June 16 [frame 7.811-814]

Regarding Schwager's family in Southern Minnesota; also life near Puget Sound.

Item Christine Sherfey to Mari Sandoz, 1937, June 19 [frame 7.817-819]

Regarding inquiry of ranchers and ranches of Northern Nebraska, Panhandle regions.

Item E.A. Burnett, Chancellor of University of Nebraska to Mari Sandoz, 1937, June 23 [frame 7.823]

Reply to Sandoz's letter about the Prairie Schooner.

Item A.C. Booth to Mari Sandoz, 1937, July 24 [frame 7.852-854]

Regarding Old Jules; Booth's days in the West [Sandoz made two copies of this letter].

Item W.A. Stolby to Mari Sandoz, 1937, July 30 [frame 7.858]

Regarding Stolley's visit to Sandoz farm in the Sandhills.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell, 1937, Aug. 5 [frame 7.862]

Regarding Slogum House; problems at Little, Brown and Company; Sandoz leaving for New Mexico.

Item Telegram from Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Aug. 20 [frame 7.892]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Aug. 27 [frame 7.903-904]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Frank Pilger to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Sept. 9 [frame 7.917-919]

Regarding Sandoz's proposed trip into South Dakota; Badger Clark; Pete Norbeck; also a copy of a letter from Clark to Pilger regarding Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.C. Booth, 1937, Sept. 10 [frame 7.923]

Regarding Sandoz's reply to Booth's letter of July 24, 1937; death of George Booth; ranches and ranch hands in Northwest Nebraska.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Sept. 15 [frame 7.930]

Regarding revisions suggestions and queries about Slogum House.

Item A.C. Booth to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Sept. 16 [frame 7.931-933]

Regarding life and death of George Booth; grazing rights on the frontier; newspaper item about G. Booth.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Sept. 17 [frame 7.934]

Regarding language and colloquialisms in Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Sept. 26 [frame 7.946-947]

Regarding Slogum House; style of writing Slogum House; Swiss dialect used in the book; proofs and changes made in Slogum House.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Sept. 28 [frame 7.950-951]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Marks, Director, State Historical Survey, 1937, Sept. 30 [frame 7.957]

Regarding federal project; research; Old Jules; funding.

Item Harold Marks to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Oct. 5 [frame 7.965]

Reply to Sandoz's letter of September 30, 1937, Nebraska State Historical Society.

Item Mari Sandoz to Emily H. Lott, 1937, Oct. 7 [frame 7.967]

Reply to Lott's letter to Better Homes and Gardens; Johnson County wars; Mercer's book.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1937, Oct. 10 [frame 7.970]

Regarding Wyoming historic sites; Custer battlefield; Sandoz recalls her own trip to the site; publishing problems; "economic colonialism" of the eastern publishers.

Item A.B. Wood, Gering Courier to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Oct. 18 [frame 7.982-983]

Regarding Sandoz to write a history of Sheridan County, Nebraska; Wood asks that Sandoz write of the cattlemen's wars. "Airplane view of Gering Nebraska and Environment" - photograph

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Oct. 22 [frame 7.991-992]

Regarding Wyoming trip; elk hunting; Custer Battlefield; Sandhills landscapes.

Item Jim Van Liew to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Oct. 25 [frame 7.998-999]

Regarding Los Angeles in the 1930's; employment and labor struggles; reading and writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Oct. 28 [frame 7.1011]

Regarding Slogum House jacket; England's edition of Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.B. Wood, 1937, Oct. 28 [frame 7.1012]

Reply to Wood's request for a Sheridan County history.

Item A.B. Wood to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Oct. 31 [frame 7.1013]

Regarding Sheridan County history.

Item Alfred R. McIntyre to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 3 [frame 7.1020]

Regarding enthusiasm for Slogum House.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 4 [frame 7.1026]

Promotional book reviews for Slogum House.

Item W.B. Hodge to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 10 [frame 7.1037]

Regarding Elkhorn Livestock Company; the hanging of Kid Wade; Doc Middleton; someone claims to be Mari's sister.

Item Card-Adams Company to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 12 [frame 7.1038-1042]

Regarding company asks if Sandoz is interested in buying a ranch in the Sandhills; includes an advertisement for "Ideal Domino Prince", a purebred hereford bull.

Item Fred DuToit to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 16 [frame 7.1045-1047]

Regarding DuToits Western travels; Black Hills; DuToit and O'dell family history; writing as a reporter; Western Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Alfred McIntyre, Little, Brown and Company, 1937, Nov. 17 [frame 7.1051]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1937, Nov. 17 [frame 7.1053]

Regarding Slogum House; German Edition of Old Jules.

Item Pan Sterling to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 18 [frame 7.1056]

Regarding Slogum House; repayment of a loan; writing for women's magazines.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 23 [frame 7.1061-1062]

Regarding Hoffman plans to stay in Wyoming; a visit to the Sandoz homeplace; experiences in Wyoming.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1937, Nov. 23 [frame 7.1065]

Regarding "The Smart Man;" publication of Slogum House; coyote hunting.

Item Alfred McIntyre to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 27 [frame 7.1073]

Regarding Slogum House advance check.

Item Mrs. Waggoner to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 30 [frame 7.1080]

Regarding Susan Bettleyoun manuscript.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1937, Nov. 30 [frame 7.1081]

Regarding Slogum House sales.




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