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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 6]. Correspondence, 1940, Jan.-1941, Feb. [Microfilm Reel MS00010]Item Celia Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 2 [frame 10.6-10]

Regarding Sandhills life; Sandoz family.

Item Blanche Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 3 [frame 10.11-16]

Regarding Sandhills news; new highway from Gordon.

Item Mari Sandoz to Anne Ford, Little, Brown & Co., 1940, Jan. 3 [frame 10.17]

Regarding a woman claiming to be Sandoz's sister.

Item Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Co., 1940, Jan. 3 [frame 10.18]

Regarding Capital City; Slogum House manuscripts.

Item Estelle Laughlin to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 5 [frame 10.20-21]

Regarding Capital City; reviewing books; a book about Gering, Nebraska.

Item Article, 1940, Jan. 7 [frame 10.24-26]

"Where Steamboats Met the Cactus" by Jack Maynard.

Item John Metcalf to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 8 [frame 10.28]

Regarding Old Jules; photographs taken in the Sandhills; revisiting Pine Ridge; Liberation Doctrine.

Item Peggy Benjamin to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 12 [frame 10.32-34]

Regarding Capital City; European situation; maps.

Item Blanche Sandall Berry to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 15 [frame 10.35-39] Item Ernest Hemingway to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 16 [frame 10.44]

Regarding American Committee for the Protection of the Foreign Born; donation.

Item Article enclosed, [frame 10.45]

Regarding "River Polack."

Item Mattie M. Allison, Southwest Texas Teacher's College to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 19 [frame 10.47]

Regarding "River Polack."

Item Mrs. Alma Farrier to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 19 [frame 10.48]

Regarding Old Jules; Mrs. Elsase's Nebraska home in Alliance; Sandhills families.

Item Mrs. C.M. Elsase to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 20 [frame 10.52-54]

Regarding Old Jules; Mrs. Elsase's Nebraska home in Alliance; Sandhills families.

Item Ivy M. Howard to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 21 [frame 10.55]

Regarding Capital City.

Item Mr. Eugene Gottschalk to Mari Sandoz, undated [frame 10.58]

Regarding Slogum House; Capital City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. George Grimes, Omaha World-Herald, 1940, Jan. 22 [frame 10.59]

Regarding writing about the Golden Gloves finals in Omaha.

Item Notes from Hastings Daily Tribune, 1940, Jan. 22 [frame 10.63]

Regarding Mortimer N. Kress.

Item Tom Griffin to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 23 [frame 10.64-65]

Regarding plight of the farmer.

Item Mari Sandoz to Rebecca Burrows, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.68-69]

Regarding Sandoz family members; European historians; Professor Fling, University of Nebraska; German version of Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to Caryl Ellis, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.70]

Regarding life in Lincoln; common friends & acquaintances.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ivy M. Howard, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.71]

Regarding photograph of Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Jefferies, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.72]

Regarding Elmer Sturgeon; Old Jules; encouragement for writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Chester M. Jones, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.73]

Regarding Whitman material; Oregon Trail Association.

Item Mari Sandoz to M.I. McCreight, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.75]

Regarding Capital City.

Item Mari Sandoz to James P. Murray, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.76]

Regarding Capital City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Doris Smith, 1940, Jan. 24 [frame 10.77]

Regarding Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to George A. Hall, 1940, Jan. 27 [frame 10.83]

Regarding old timers from Nebraska; Indian biographies.

Item Mari Sandoz to Estelle C. Laughlin, 1940, Jan. 27 [frame 10.84]

Regarding Capital City; art in writing; college students.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. C.W. Spacht, 1940, Jan. 27 [frame 10.86]

Regarding old timers of the Sandhills; Lusk, Montana; a Cheyenne biography.

Item Mari Sandoz to Aunt Susie, 1940, Jan. 27 [frame 10.87]

Regarding Sandoz family.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Thomas D. Vaughn, 1940, Jan. 27 [frame 10.88]

Regarding American writers; advice about writing.

Item C.E. Holen to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 28 [frame 10.89-90]

Regarding Old Jules; critics; reviewers.

Item Louise Schwartz Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 29 [frame 10.91]

Regarding Old Jules.

Item Helen Blish to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Jan. 30 [frame 10.92]

Regarding Cheyennes; Eleanor Hinman; Crazy Horse; Sioux.

Item Clipping in Blish Letter, 1940, Jan. 30 [frame 10.93]

Regarding Howard Fast; Cheyennes.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1940, Feb. 2 [frame 10.112]

Regarding Charlotte Booth diary; "Cheyenne Book."

Item Leonard Thiessen to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 3 [frame 10.116]

Regarding art sale.

Item Ed Weeks to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 5 [frame 10.120]

Regarding Charlotte Booth; war-time publishing; the "Cheyenne Book."

Item Axton Clark to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Feb. 6 [frame 10.122]

Regarding receipt of the script; quarantine.

Item Mari Sandozx to Tom Griffin, 1940, Feb. 6 [frame 10.126]

Regarding Federal Land Bank; farming in Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Schwartz Hayes, 1940, Feb. 6 [frame 10.127]

Regarding Old Jules.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lincoln Star Journal, 1940, Feb. 6 [frame 10.128]

Regarding Meadowlarks in Kansas.

Item Simon & Schuster (Quincy Howe) to Ed Weeks, 1940, Feb. 7 [frame 10.133]

Regarding Howard Fast's Cheyenne vs. Mari Sandoz's Cheyenne Book.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1940, Feb. 8 [frame 10.136]

Regarding plans for the Cheyenne material; Dull Knife and Little Wolf.

Item Ben Abramson to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 9 [frame 10.140]

Regarding Sandoz's Cheyenne material.

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 9 [frame 10.141]

Regarding Sandoz's attempt to serialize Cheyenne material in the Saturday Evening Post.

Item Mari Sandoz to Maud Jacobs Fontana, 1940, Feb. 9 [frame 10.144]

Regarding the art of writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. A.G. Ogden, Atlantic Monthly, 1940, Feb. 10 [frame 10.146]

Regarding the rag review of Capital City; Sandoz's home broken into.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charlotte Booth, 1940, Feb. 12 [frame 10.152]

Regarding return of the diary.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1940, Feb. 12 [frame 10.153]

Regarding Cheyenne story for the Saturday Evening Post.

Item Erd Brandt, Saturday Evening Post to J. Chambrun, 1940, Feb. 16 [frame 10.158]

Regarding Sandoz's Cheyenne story.

Item P.S. Heaton to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 16 [frame 10.159]

Regarding frontier characters and real people; the Mitchell family; Thompson family; Slogum House.

Item Charles Starbird to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Feb. 16 [frame 10.162]

Regarding Max Rotzplatz.

Item Martha Rassmussen to Foster May, 1940, Feb. 17 [frame 10.172]

Regarding Mari Sandoz radio interview.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1940, Feb. 26 [frame 10.185]

Regarding "The Peachstone Basket;" Sandoz tells how she believes Howard Fast "stole" her Cheyenne material.

Item Mari Sandoz to Leonard Thiessen, 1940, Feb. 26 [frame 10.186]

Regarding his painting "Oilcloth Bag."

Item Henry Tegels to Mrs. Rine, 1940, Feb. 28 [frame 10.195]

Regarding the Tegels family, a pioneering family of the Niobrara area.

Item Henrietta K. Blincow to Mari Sandoz, 1940,Feb. 29 [frame 10.198]

Regarding attempts to found a public library in Oxford NE; request for an autographed volume.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Blish, 1930, Mar. 1 [frame 10.200]

Regarding Sandoz's problems with the Howard Fast book of Cheyennes.

Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Hinman, 1940, Mar. 1 [frame 10.201]

Regarding Crazy Horse material.

Item , 1940, Mar. 1 [frame 10.202-209]

"Oglala sources on the Life of Crazy Horse."

Item Mari Sandoz to Jasper Hunt, 1940, Mar. 2 [frame 10.210]

Regarding writing; doctoring.

Item Mari Sandoz to Henry G. Leach, Editor of The Forum, 1940, Mar. 2 [frame 10.212]

Regarding the Christian front.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, 1940, Mar. 7 [frame 10.221]

Regarding Sandoz's New Mexico trip.

Item Estelle C. Laughlin to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Mar. 11 [frame 10.223]

Regarding a Sandhills library.

Item Celia Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Mar. 14 [frame 10.227]

Regarding Sandhills life in 1940; family issues.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Poling, 1940, Mar. 22 [frame 10.236]

Regarding Sandoz's future plans for Indian biographies; the Howard Fast debacle.

Item Fern Shellenberg to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Mar. 22 [frame 10.238]

Regarding Ward Shellenberg.

Item Mari Sandoz to Estelle Laughlin, 1940, Mar. 27 [frame 10.251]

Regarding Sandhills library; the woman's party in Washington, D.C.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles E. Starbird, 1940, Mar. 27 [frame 10.257]

Regarding Max Rotzplatz.

Item Estelle Laughlin to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Mar. 28 [frame 10.263]

Regarding Equal Rights Amendment; women's rights.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1940, Mar. 30 [frame 10.267]

Regarding "Martha of the Yellow Braids."

Item Evan Stegers to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Mar. 31 [frame 10.269]

Regarding Steger's travels; people in Lincoln.

Item , 1940, Apr. [frame 10.270]

Item J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Apr. 1 [frame 10.271]

Regarding "Martha of the Yellow Braids" and "Peachstone Basket."

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Paul Eldridge, 1940, Apr. 5 [frame 10.292]

Regarding Capital City; Silver Shirts.

Item Mari Sandoz to Estelle Laughlin, 1940, Apr. 5 [frame 10.294]

Regarding women's political rights.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Eugene Thorp, 1940, Apr. 5 [frame 10.297]

Regarding Sandoz family; communists.

Item H.S. Kloke to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Apr. 5 [frame 10.298]

Regarding Sioux as the Lost Tribe of Israel.

Item Weldon Kees to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Apr. 12 [frame 10.317]

Regarding Sandoz's impending move to Denver.

Item A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Apr. 20 [frame 10.335]

Regarding unpublished reports of Oglala and Brule in mid-1800s.

Item Maud Houghlan to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Apr. 26 [frame 10.343]

Regarding range riders; Powder River; Reynolds Battlefield.

Item A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Apr. 26 [frame 10.344]

Regarding maps; Pine Ridge; Red Cloud research; Grattan affair - Twiss.

Item Major James M. Adamson, Fort Robinson Commanding Officer to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Apr. 27 [frame 10.346]

Regarding making historical files available to Sandoz for research but, he wants to approve any Fort Robinson data she may publish; mentions a "two year lapse" in Army records from 1876 to 1878; missing files.

Item Ruthie Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, May 12 [frame 10.352]

Regarding Nebraska Sandhills life.

Item Joseph M.M. Gray, Chancellor, American University, Washington, D.C. to Mari Sandoz , 1940, May 14 [frame 10.355]

Regarding research about Dawson County, Nebraska.

Item Carl Raswan to Mari Sandoz, 1940, May 14 [frame 10.356]

Regarding an Arabian horse book about to be published.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1940, May 15 [frame 10.357]

Regarding finding information at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.; military records - gives details about John Richard troubles at Pine Ridge; Cheyenne removal.

Item Julia McGillicudy to Mari Sandoz, 1940, May 18 [frame 10.364]

Regarding death of (Valentine McGillicudy) her husband, who had once been the Indian Agent at Pine Ridge; speaks of writing the book McGillicudy Agent.

Item Lewis Schwager to Mari Sandoz, 1940, May 28 [frame 10.380]

Regarding Seattle in the Spring of 1940; the "awful mess in Europe" and the complacency of England; "the Beast in Berlin."

Item Celia Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, June 3 [frame 10.383]

Regarding Sandhills life in 1940; Sandoz family and feelings about the impending war.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Allen Churchill, Publisher, 1940, June 10 [frame 10.403]

Regarding a book about the history of Nebraska; Sandoz doesn't think it will sell.

Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph M.M. Gray, Chancellor, American University, 1940, June 11 [frame 10.408]

Regarding Nebraska History, Library of Congress; Nebraska State Historical Society publications.

Item Fred Daniels to Mari Sandoz, 1940, June 20 [frame 10.416]

Regarding Hitler; France; impending war; a young Jewish refugee girl acquaintance, Eva Echt

Item Nello Sweet to Mari Sandoz, 1940, June 24 [frame 10.425]

Regarding a poem dedicated to Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Nines, 1940, June 25 [frame 10.431]

Regarding his knowledge of Pine Ridge Reservation people.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. H.W. Scrimsher, 1940, June 25 [frame 10.434]

Regarding writing for the children's literature market; Mary Sandoz; creativity.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Daniels, 1940, June 26 [frame 10.440]

Regarding Nazis.

Item Mari Sandoz to P.S. Heaton, 1940, June 26 [frame 10.441]

Regarding Plains families; will-to-power personality; Gulla Slogum.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. V.T. (Julia) McGillicudy., 1940, June 26 [frame 10.442]

Regarding the death of Dr. McGillicudy; Dr. McGillicudy on the Rosebud in 1876.

Item Mari Sandoz to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, 1940, July 7 [frame 10.465]

Regarding atom splitting; German physicists Hahn and Strassman; atomic power.

Item Mari Sandoz to Peggy Haskell Benjamin, 1940, July 8 [frame 10.466]

Regarding Capital City and The Guide Book; Nebraska towns.

Item Mari Sandoz to Carl Raswan, 1940, July 8 [frame 10.470]

Regarding a visit to New Mexico; the Arabian horse book; Nazis in America.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Robert Zulaf, 1940, July 8 [frame 10.472]

Regarding Old Jules; Slogum House; Capital City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Newton Harrison, 1940, July 10 [frame 10.476]

Regarding a visit to Wyoming; the Tongue River country; Indian conflicts; educator Jimmy Yen.

Item Dorothy Switzer to Mari Sandoz, 1940, July 10 [frame 10.479]

Regarding Sandoz's integrity from a woman's point of view; Sandoz leaving Lincoln; School of Journalism.

Item Mari Sandoz to Gretchen Lee, 1940, July 11 [frame 10.481]

Regarding Sandoz's new residence in Denver, Colorado.

Item Bob Ferguson to Mari Sandoz, 1940, July 16 [frame 10.490]

Regarding Sandoz's $1.00 bet that Hitler would invade England.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Bixby, 1940, July 16 [frame 10.494]

Regarding Sandoz's work and residence in Denver.

Item Mari Sandoz to Bob Ferguson, 1940, July 20 [frame 10.495]

Regarding Sandoz's $1.00 bet about Hitler; the Wilkies of Denver.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1940, July 20 [frame 10.506]

Regarding The Cordeal material; McCook, Nebraska; Judge Paine.

Item A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1940, July 22 [frame 10.514]

Regarding Senator Cordeal; Judge Bayard Paine.

Item Julia McGillicudy to Mari Sandoz, 1940, July 26 [frame 10.521]

Regarding McGillicudy, Agent to be published by Stanford Press.

Item Bob Ferguson to Mari Sandoz, 1940, July 30 [frame 10.528]

Regarding suggestions for Sandoz's Indian book.

Item Mari Sandoz to H.H., Helen Hayes, 1940, Aug. 1 [frame 10.540]

Regarding Sandoz's work and visitors in Denver; news about friends they have in common.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Heyl, 1940, Aug. 1 [frame 10.542]

Regarding Bourke's On the Border With Crook.

Item Charles Heyl to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 4 [frame 10.550]

Regarding Bourke's On the Border With Crook; other books important to Sandoz's research; doubts about Vestal's writings; speculations about Custer's defeat at Little Big Horn.

Item Celia Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 5 [frame 10.559]

Regarding Sandoz family reunion in the Sandhills.

Item Alfred McIntyre (President, Little, Brown & Company) to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 20 [frame 10.576]

Regarding Sandoz's disappointment with the company; he addresses her criticisms; he addresses Capital City and Slogum House specifically.

Item Ed Weeks, The Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 20 [frame 10.578]

Regarding professional differences; Capital City; Slogum House.

Item Susan Bettleyoun to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 21 [frame 10.579]

Regarding an upcoming visit; information she wants to give Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to Alfred McIntyre, Little, Brown & Company, 1940, Aug. 21 [frame 10.585]

Regarding professional differences; Sandoz's apartment rifled.

Item Savoie Lottinville, University of Oklahoma Press to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Aug. 22 [frame 10.586]

Regarding interest in publishing her book about Plains Indians.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1940, Aug. 28 [frame 10.599]

Regarding Sandoz's plans for the upcoming fall; archeology.

Item Mari Sandoz to Leonard Thiessen, 1940, Sept. 25 [frame 10.631]

Regarding a painting Sandoz purchased from him; creating art.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Fred (Hazel) Hochriem, 1940, Sept. 27 [frame 10.637]

Regarding Old Jules and Sandhills families; Montrose, Nebraska; Nebraska State Historical Society.

Item Mari Sandoz to Sandoz Chemical Works, Inc., 1940, Sept. 27 [frame 10.639]

Regarding gynergen-migraine headache medication.

Item Mari Sandoz to "Walter", 1940, Oct. 1 [frame 10.644]

Regarding famous Nebraskans.

Item Margaret Ferguson (Peg) to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Oct. 9 [frame 10.647]

Regarding the death of "little" Joel.

Item Paul Hoffman (Alfred A. Knopf) to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Oct. 11 [frame 10.654]

Regarding Sandoz's leaving Little, Brown & Company; problems with The Atlantic Monthly; asks Sandoz to consider Knopf as a publisher.

Item Mari Sandoz to the Stegers, 1940, Oct. 11 [frame 10.655]

Regarding Sandoz's Denver residence; the work she is accomplishing there; Weldon Kees; publishing problems.

Item Audrey Wood, Liebling-Wood Agency to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Oct. 12 [frame 10.661]

Regarding film possibilities with Old Jules; Capital City and Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Audrey Wood, 1940, Oct. 14 [frame 10.664]

Regarding filming options on Sandoz's books Old Jules, Capital City, Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, Knopf Publishing, 1940, Oct. 15 [frame 10.665]

Regarding finding a new publisher; past problems; upcoming books; Great Plains "cycle."

Item Charles Heyl to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Oct. 16 [frame 10.667]

Regarding western writers; Heyl's father at Fort Hartsuff; Red Cloud Folks.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Oct. 18 [frame 10.669]

Regarding interest of the Knopfs in publishing Sandozs material; asks Sandoz to consider coming to Knopfs.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Oct. 22 [frame 10.677]

Regarding a meeting with Alfred Knopf in Denver.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun, 1940, Oct. 28 [frame 10.680]

Regarding "Mooch-Mouth & the School Ma'am."

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1940, Oct. 30 [frame 10.683]

Regarding common friends and aquaintances; work in Denver; Asian artists; the French collapse; Gertrude Stien; Poland.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Nov. 1 [frame 10.690]

Regarding a possible publishing deal with Knopfs.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz , 1940, Nov. 2 [frame 10.693]

Regarding Lincoln, Nebraska social scene; common friends and acquaintances; Leonard Thiessen.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Nov. 4 [frame 10.698]

Regarding working on the deal with Knopfs.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Nov. 8 [frame 10.705]

Regarding a contract with Knopfs "in the works."

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Nov. 12 [frame 10.712]

Regarding more data on the impending Knopf publishing deal.

Item Arton Jensen to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Nov. 12-13 [frame 10.714]

Regarding getting published; the European situation; Weldon Kees. There are three letters following regarding this matter - see frames 716, 717, 718.

Item Paul Hoffman, Knopfs, Inc. to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Nov. 22 [frame 10.726]

Regarding contract sent to Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to Susan Bettleyoun, 1940, Nov. 22 [frame 10.729]

Regarding a visit from Sandoz; Dull Knife; the Bettleyoun manuscript at Nebraska State Historical Society.

Item The Office of R.L. Cochran (Dorothy ?), Governor of Nebraska to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Nov. 23 [frame 10.732]

Regarding Tilley's re-appointment, politics in Lincoln; a play in Omaha.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Nov. 23 [frame 10.734]

Regarding publishing problems at Atlantic Monthly and Little, Brown & Company.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 2 [frame 10.741]

Regarding changing Knopf's contract.

Item Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 4 [frame 10.745]

Regarding getting a work published; a brief synopsis of his work - a mid 19th century story; Northern Cheyenne book; Sandoz's past works.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 4 [frame 10.747]

This is a personal letter rather than a business letter regarding all the publishing skirmishes.

Item Blanche Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 4 [frame 10.749]

Regarding Sandoz family news.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 4 [frame 10.756]

Regarding breaking away from Little, Brown & Company.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 6 [frame 10.765]

Regarding more contract maneuvering.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 6 [frame 10.767]

Regarding more contract discussions.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.E. Sheldon, Nebraska State Historical Society, 1940, Dec. 7 [frame 10.768]

Regarding missing Red Cloud materials; Bettleyoun manuscript information.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 9 [frame 10.774]

Regarding problems with Little, Brown & Company.

Item Mari Sandoz to Weldon Kees, 1940, Dec. 9 [frame 10.75]

Regarding Passage.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 10 [frame 10.776]

Regarding contract problems.

Item Mari Sandoz to F.L. Williams, 1940, Dec. 10 [frame 10.780]

Regarding Sandozs work in Denver; Nebraskans and other writers there.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 14 [frame 10.782]

Regarding Sandoz has sent a collection of short stories to Little, Brown & Company trying to fulfill her contractual obligations.

Item Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Company, 1940, Dec. 14 [frame 10.786]

Regarding Sandoz has sent Devil's Lane, a collection of short stories.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 17 [frame 10.789]

Regarding her future plans, such as they are; Christmas plans.

Item Mari Sandoz to Michalene T. Szymanski, 1940, Dec. 17 [frame 10.790]

Regarding "The River Polack" and Capital City.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 18 [frame 10.792]

Regarding a Denver visit planned.

Item Mari Sandoz to Leonard Thiessen, 1940, Dec. 20 [frame 10.796]

Regarding Denver artists.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1940, Dec. 22 [frame 10.797]

Regarding Denver writers; the upcoming visit.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Van Den Bark, 1940, Dec. 23 [frame 10.798]

Regarding holiday news; writing style; revisions; leaving Little, Brown & Company; mentions Hemingway and Cather's new publications; World's End by Upton Sinclair.

Item Leonard Thiessen to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 29 [frame 10.807]

Regarding sending Sandoz a painting; other news of the artist.

Item Chester Kerr, The Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz, 1940, Dec. 31 [frame 10.812]

Regarding Sandoz released from Little, Brown & Company contract; Devil's Lane rejected.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1940

The remainder of this reel contains many letters from Helen Hayes.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1940 [frame 10.858]

Regarding Lincoln news; news of common friends and acquaintances.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1940 [frame 10.863]

Regarding Denver social scene; mentions Neihardt; Thomas Hornsby Ferrill.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chester Kerr, Atlantic Monthly Press, 1941, Jan. 2 [frame 10.925]

BOX 9, FOLDER 209, Regarding Sandoz's release from contract.

Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 2 [frame 10.926-927]

Regarding historical information on Czechs military, Hitler.

Item Mari Sandoz to Henry Tegels, 1941, Jan. 5 [frame 10.932-934]

Regarding the Rines of Omaha, Tegels of Running Water Region; Manions; photo of the Tegels.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 7 [frame 10.938-939]

Regarding Sandoz's contract with Knopfs.

Item Chester Kerr, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz , 1941, Jan. 7 [frame 10.940]

Regarding "The Devil's Lane" is returned from Atlantic Monthly Publishers, Mari gets out of contract with Atlantic Monthly Publishers.

Item Mari Sandoz to F.B. Griffith, 1941, Jan. 7 [frame 10.941]

Regarding Old Jules; Slogum House; Mein Kampf.

Item Eleanor Hinman Card to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 8 [frame 10.942-943]

Regarding moving to Washington.

Item Henry Tegels to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 8 [frame 10.945-946]

Regarding World War II (coming of); Sandhill families.

Item Blanche A. Knopf to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 9 [frame 10.947]

Regarding contract signed with Knopf Publishing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1941 [frame 10.948-949]

Tells of what she's been doing in Denver; The Van Ripers.

Item Elizabeth Brennan to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 14 [frame 10.955-957]

BOX 9, FOLDER 210, Regarding aspiring Nebraska writer; Brennan asks for help.

Item Mari Sandoz to Vida Belk , 1941, Jan. 20 [frame 10.965]

Regarding Capital City,Slogum House.

Item Marie Connelly to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 23 [frame 10.967-968]

Regarding publishing problems, etc.

Item Vida Belk to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 24 [frame 10.969]

Regarding Capital City, the coming World War II.

Item Alfred Westfall, Colorado State College to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 24 [frame 10.971]

Regarding invitation to speak.

Item Frank Pilger to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 24 [frame 10.978]

Regarding Sandhill's families, United Bretheren churches.

Item Paul Hoffman to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Jan. 30 [frame 10.975-976]

Regarding Crazy Horse; also Edith Eudora Kohl.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, undated [frame 10.983-985]

Regarding art shows, Leonard Thiessen; Historical Society has located Indian bones near Polk, Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, undated [frame 10.986]

Regarding Crazy Horse and Slogum House; Knopf contract.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, undated [frame 10.989-992]

BOX 9, FOLDER 211, Regarding Nebraska weather, songs from the radio, art exhibits, migraine cure, coming of World War II.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Hoffman, 1941, Feb. 3 [frame 10.994-995]

Regarding Chivington and the Cheyenne, train wreck in Denver.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lenora, 1941, Feb. 3 [frame 10.996]

Regarding fascists, Dog soldiers, Cheyennes, Sitting Bull and adoption of enemies.

Item Steger to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 5 [frame 10.996]

Regarding news of Lincoln; old friends and acqaintances.

Item Clarence Trued to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 5 [frame 10.1001]

Regarding "That story" and its operatic possibilities, more Crazy Horse secrecy.

Item Axton Clark to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 6 [frame 10.1002-1003]

Regarding phrasing in Slogum House

Item Alfred Westfall to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 19 [frame 10.1018]

Regarding Colorado conference.

Item Mari Sandoz to Alfred Westfall, 1941, Feb. 21 [frame 10.1020]

Regarding Colorado conference.

Item Blanche & Fritz Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 25 [frame 10.1023-1028]

BOX 9, FOLDER 212, Regarding Sandhill life in 1941 ... The completion of Nebraska highway 27, mentions Black Elk Speaks.

Item Rosalie Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 25 [frame 10.1029-1030]

Regarding her resume and asking advice about writing and how to get a job.

Item Stanford University Press (Croonqistic) to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 26 [frame 10.1034]

Regarding McGillicudy, Agent.

Item J.R. Chambers to Mari Sandoz, 1941, Feb. 27 [frame 10.1039]

Regarding Old Jules, photos.




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