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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 7. Correspondence, 1944, Mar.-1945, Nov. [Microfilm Reel MS00013]Item Mari Sandoz to Alfred A. Knopf, 1944, Mar. 3 [frame 13.8]

Regarding We'll Soon Have You Back Again and The Tom Walker; a semi-final draft is turned in.

Item Mari Sandoz to W.W. Arrasmith, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.11]

Regarding her "new" novel The Tom Walker and synopsis of it.

Item Mari Sandoz to Betty Brown-Baker, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.13]

Regarding the Crazy Horse lookout, maps; Sioux campsites in Wyoming and Montana.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Ballar, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.14]

Regarding New York City life; John Neihardt's brother-in-law lives upstairs from her apartment.

Item Mari Sandoz to Joe DeYong, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.15-16]

Regarding answer to his letter, Frank Goings; Little Soldier; she says she won't be tricked by Hollywood.

Item Mari Sandoz to Harrison B. French, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.18]

Regarding the merits of Lovett's "Preface to Fiction."

Item Mari Sandoz to Wallace B. Hodge, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.19]

Regarding Bassett, Nebraska; "Pizen" Bill Hooker.

Item Mari Sandoz to Richard G. Lillard, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.21-22]

Regarding winning the Atlantic Monthly prize for Old Jules

Item Mari Sandoz to Ruth Pike, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.23]

Regarding Crazy Horse; Mexican people; Life and Death of Little Joe.

Item Mari Sandoz to Sgt. Schmitt, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.24]

Regarding the Crook biography, sources/letters; Crook as procrastinator, "overly friendly with the Sioux;" Crook at Pine Ridge.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Lennie Stevens, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.27]

Regarding red ants and Indian beads.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Todd, 1944, Mar. 5 [frame 13.29]

Regarding O'Neill, Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Constance Conkling, 1944, Mar. 6 [frame 13.32]

Regarding Canada's Indians, Lord Selkirk's colony.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ruth M. Elliot, 1944, Mar. 6 [frame 13.33]

Regarding Alliance, NE; Dr. Walter Reed.

Item Mari Sandoz to Leonard Thiessen, 1944, Mar. 6 [frame 13.35]

Regarding happenings in New York City; Kills the Enemy family on Pine Ridge.

Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Bancroft, 1944, Mar. 7 [frame 13.37]

Regarding Sandoz's We'll Soon Have You Back Again and Tom Walker; Bancrofts work on Central City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dave Raffelock, 1944, Mar. 7 [frame 13.39]

Regarding post-war period; post-war society.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Bixby, 1944, Mar. 8 [frame 13.42-43]

Regarding what's been going on in Lincoln; Omaha; common friends.

Item Mari Sandoz to F.C. Flint, 1944, Mar. 8 [frame 13.44]

Regarding the name "Sangalli" origins; Irish monk in Switzerland; Knittel's Via Mala.

Item Lenore Taylor to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 8 [frame 13.46-47]

Regarding Colorado happenings; friends in the military who have been shot-down; publishing poetry.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 9 [frame 13.48-49]

Regarding his play; Katherine Hepburn.

Item Mari Sandoz to Blanche Knopf, 1944, Mar. 12 [frame 13.56]

Regarding The Tom Walker.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lenore Taylor, 1944, Mar. 12 [frame 13.57-58]

Regarding Neihardt's brother-in-law; Neihardt's work with Indian Bureau.

Item Knopfs (Blanche) to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 13 [frame 13.59]

Regarding they don't want her novel, only non-fiction.

Item Knopf (Blanche) to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 15 [frame 13.61]

Regarding contract argument.

Item Mari Sandoz to Blanche Knopf, 1944, Mar. 15 [frame 13.62]

Regarding defining We'll Soon Have You Back Again and its worth; also Slogum House; Capital City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Allan Collins, Curtis Brown Ltd., 1944, Mar. 16 [frame 13.63]

Regarding We'll Soon Have You Back Again The Tom Walker.

Item Little, Brown & Co. to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 17 [frame 13.67]

Regarding author's plates to Capital City to be melted into war material.

Item Mari Sandoz to Blanche Knopf, 1944, Mar. 17 [frame 13.68]

Mari Sandoz says her end of the contract complete.

Item Mari Sandoz to Richard Lilliard, 1944, Mar. 18 [frame 13.69-70]

Regarding more about the Atlantic Monthly prize for Old Jules.

Item Caroline Bancroft to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 19 [frame 13.73-75]

Regarding World War II, plight of England, free French.

Item Van Vleets to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 19 [frame 13.81-82]

Regarding the Van Vleets "Colorado Afloat."

Item Little, Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 24 [frame 13.88]

Capital City plates to be shipped without title of the book on the packages as per her request.

Item Blanche Knopf to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 24 [frame 13.89]

Regarding more contract squabbles.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Vigilante, 1944, Mar. 25 [frame 13.91]

Regarding references to Doc Middleton story; Custer County history and photographer named Butcher.

Item Mari Sandoz to Robert Lynd, Columbia University, 1944, Mar. 26 [frame 13.95-96]

Regarding Sandoz's concerns in the "subsidy" arena; political and economic concerns for the "little man."

Item Allen Collins, Curtis Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Mar. 27 [frame 13.97]

Regarding rejection of We'll Soon Have You Back Again and The Tom Walker.

Item Mari Sandoz to Blanche Knopf, 1944, Mar. 27 [frame 13.99]

Regarding contract squabbling.

Item Mari Sandoz to Hazel Clark, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.109-110]

Regarding racial issues/congress; the Fling-Rice feud at UNL.

Item Mari Sandoz to Elaine Goodale Eastman, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.111]

Regarding Indian/white relationships.

Item Mari Sandoz to Burr & McCaughen, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.114]

Regarding Remington's oil painting.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charlie Nines, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.115-116]

Regarding Catlin's paintings/letters; missionaries on the Reservations.

Item Mari Sandoz to Betty Van Vleet, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.118]

Regarding books on the art of writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lauren Waldorf, 1944, Mar. 31 [frame 13.119]

Regarding movie rights; Irving Thalberg.

Item Elaine Goodale Eastman to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 1 [frame 13.121]

Regarding Indian/white relationships.

Item Robert Lynd, Columbia University to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 3 [frame 13.124]

Regarding farmers and labor; politics in the midwest.

Item Dick Velter to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 3 [frame 13.127]

Regarding army life in North Africa, World War II.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. C.W. Fitch, 1944, Apr. 4 [frame 13.130]

Regarding Crazy Horse and Custer materials.

Item Mari Sandoz to WACS Recruiting Office, 1944, Apr. 6 [frame 13.133]

Regarding Sandoz application to join.

Item WACS Recruiting Office to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 14 [frame 13.140]

Regarding Sandoz's application status.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Fitch, 1944, Apr. 14 [frame 13.141]

Regarding more Custer material and other western writers.

Item Mrs. Rebecca Knowles to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 22 [frame 13.143-144]

Regarding Crazy Horse.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Thomas Hornsby Ferrill, 1944, Apr. 23 [frame 13.146]

Regarding Chris Madsen/historical marker, scouts and soldiers on the plains; Buffalo Bill and Yellow Hand.

Item Mari Sandoz to Governor Griswold, Nebraska, 1944, Apr. 24 [frame 13.150]

Regarding recommendation/references to her enlistment in WACS

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1944, Apr. 24 [frame 13.151]

Regarding her enlistment into WACS, Sat. Review of Literature.

Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound, 1944, Apr. 24 [frame 13.152]

Regarding asking her to be a reference as well as per enlistment.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 25 [frame 13.154]

Regarding Lincoln news; Quill; Fred Ballard play; army boys in Lincoln.

Item Mari Sandoz to Stewart Rose, 1944, Apr. 26 [frame 13.157]

Regarding cavalry days on the plains, Walter Reed.

Item Governor Griswold to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 27 [frame 13.158]

Regarding reply to the reference request.

Item Cornelia O. Peek to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 27 [frame 13.159-160]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Florence Beecher to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Apr. 30 [frame 13.161]

Regarding Old Jules.

Item Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz, 1944, May 1 [frame 13.170]

Regarding Crazy Horse; the writing process.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Rebecca Knowles, 1944, May 2 [frame 13.172-173]

Regarding to letter; Crazy Horse; minorities in post-war-world Amos Bad-Heart Bull paintings.

Item P.R. Beath to Mari Sandoz, 1944, May 7 [frame 13.178]

Regarding Ben Botkin's books; his own book about Feboldson.

Item Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz, 1944, May 8 [frame 13.179]

Regarding art; artists.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1944, May 16 [frame 13.184]

Regarding newspaper men; bums in New York City; people in general.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Chambrun, 1944, May 24 [frame 13.190]

Regarding her autobiography; status of her short-story.

Item Ed Jesse to Mari Sandoz, 1944, May 28 [frame 13.194]

Regarding his recall of roots in Sandhills country; Irvin Riggs Tinnin Charly Neebo, Jim Dalman, Barlet Richards; also Old Jules.

Item Raymond Latrom to Mari Sandoz, 1944, May 29 [frame 13.196-197]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society, who shall fill Dr. Sheldon's shoes, etc.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Chambrun, 1944, June 3 [frame 13.204]

Regarding sending a short story; "Uncle Bunty and the Redhead."

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell, 1944, June 5 [frame 13.205]

Regarding Dave Rafflelock's work, he's a friend she's trying to get published.

Item Mari Sandoz to Raymond J. Latrom, 1944, June 5 [frame 13.206-207]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society; politics in Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dave Rafflelock, 1944, June 5 [frame 13.208]

Regarding Knopf's rejection of his material; she sent it to Aswell (Harper) publishing issues.

Item Rose Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 9 [frame 13.211-212]

Regarding an invitation to the ranch; news of family in the War.

Item Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 13 [frame 13.213]

Regarding criticisms of "Uncle Bunty and the Redhead."

Item Little, Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 13 [frame 13.214]

Regarding Slogum House won't go into armed services editions; the rejection letter because of "political content."

Item Pat Patton to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 14 [frame 13.216]

Regarding North Platte canteen story.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1944, June 14 [frame 13.217]

Regarding "Uncle Bunty", she won't change it.

Item Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Company, 1944, June 15 [frame 13.218]

Regarding ban on Slogum House.

Item Dave Rafflelock to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 16 [frame 13.219]

Regardings thanks and concerns for Mari as per entering the WACS.

Item Lenore Taylor to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 16 [frame 13.220]

Regarding upcoming visit to Van Vleet ranch; articles about the ranch.

Item Mari Sandoz to Thomas H. Ferrill, 1944, June 18 [frame 13.222]

Regarding ban on Slogum House in armed services edition.

Item Little, Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1944, June 19 [frame 13.223]

Regarding ban on Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Max Lerner, 1944, June 22 [frame 13.227]

Regarding repressive politics and ban of Slogum House; censorship.

Item Mari Sandoz to Council on Books in Wartime, 1944, June 27 [frame 13.229]

Regarding banned books; Nazis in American; Dr. Schonemann.

Item Mari Sandoz to Governor Griswold, 1944, June 29 [frame 13.230]

Regarding eye problems; rejection from WACS.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell, 1944, July 1 [frame 13.235]

Regarding the Rafflelock novel; rejection from WACS.

Item R.C. Burgess, New York Recruitment Station to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 1 [frame 13.236]

Regarding rejection letter from WACS.

Item Mari Sandoz to Tyler Buchaneau, 1944, July 3 [frame 13.238]

Regarding WACS rejection; Weldon Kees; Devilbiss family.

Item Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet, 1944, July 3 [frame 13.240]

Regarding WACS rejection; a visit to the ranch.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 4 [frame 13.242-243]

Regarding condolences on rejection; newsreels of German prisoners in Rome.

Item Archdale Jones, WMCA to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 12 [frame 13.253]

Regarding men and women in the armed forces; "Re-Unite us, Please."

Item Council on Books in Wartime to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 17 [frame 13.255]

Regarding exclusion of Slogum House; Senator Taft.

Item Mari Sandoz to U.S. Vice President Henry Wallace, 1944, July 18 [frame 13.260]

Regarding good luck; Senator Truman.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 25 [frame 13.263]

Regarding "Sitting Bull" movie; Crazy Horse as a movie; Darrel Zanuck at 20th Century Fox.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1944, July 25 [frame 13.266-267]

Regarding freedom of the press; publications; rights to information.

Item Mari Sandoz to Council on Books in Wartime, 1944, July 26 [frame 13.268]

Regarding books banned; Senator Taft.

Item Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly to Mari Sandoz, 1944, July 31 [frame 13.274]

Regarding reply to her letter; Wallace Stegner.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell, Harper & Brothers, 1944, Aug. 2 [frame 13.277]

Regarding Paul R. Beath; Feobold Feoboldson.

Item Viola Young to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Aug. 2 [frame 13.280-284]

Regarding Crazy Horse; work and personality; European theater of War/Russian Washington, D.C.; WACS in World War II; fighting French; The Baroness Trapp; Joseph Stalin; the meeting of heads of State.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1944, Aug. 4 [frame 13.287]

Regarding reply to his letter; Wallace Stegner; Catholic-Irish "Saxoners;" Dr. Schonemann.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jacques Chambrun, 1944, Aug. 7 [frame 13.292-293]

Regarding WACS rejection, short story: "Line-up at 39 Whitehall;" "Peace-scares;" "Sulema & the Billy Horse" another short story; gang activity in New York City; juvenile delinquents; her teaching experiences; youth in America.

Item Jay Carpenter to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Aug. 14 [frame 13.296]

Letter incomplete; regarding Old Jules; his youth in Nebraska plains country; ranch life.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mignon, 1944, Aug. 18 [frame 13.297]

Regarding Dr. Schonemann; Nazis in America.

Item Council on Books in Wartime to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Aug. 21 [frame 13.298]

Regarding Title V of Soldier's Vote Bill; censorship of books.

Item Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Aug. 25 [frame 13.302]

Regarding rejected "Sulema & Billy Horse."

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1944, Aug. 25 [frame 13.303]

Regarding Paris liberated; "Sulema."

Item Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Company, 1944, Aug. 25 [frame 13.305]

Regarding her problems with her new book We'll Soon Have You, Back Again and The Tom Walker.

Item Raymond Latrom to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Aug. 26 [frame 13.306-307]

Regarding "intrigue" at the Nebraska State Historical Society, the new building; Dr. Sheldon's legacy; also Gen. Pershing collection.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks, Atlantic Monthly, 1944, Aug. 31 [frame 13.315]

Regarding fan mail; subversion groups; J. Sterling Morton.

Item Chambrun/Stewart Rose to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Sept. 22-25 [frame 13.330]

Regarding "Sulema & the Billy Horse;" criticisms/decisions.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Sept. 26 [frame 13.331-334]

Regarding Lincoln news.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1944, Sept. 26 [frame 13.335]

Regarding changes to "Sulema & the Billy Horse."

Item Mari Sandoz to Van Gelder, 1944, Oct. 2 [frame 13.338]

Regarding the "charge" of feminism; Fran Kelly.

Item Mari Sandoz to Paul Beath, 1944, Oct. 4 [frame 13.341]

Regarding his publishing problems with Febold manuscript.

Item Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 9 [frame 13.344]

Regarding acceptance of "Sulema."

Item Lowry Wimberly to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 12 [frame 13.345-346]

Regarding classes at UN; prohibition in Lincoln.

Item Helen G. Walton to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 17 [frame 13.349]

Regarding Slogum House; "Insane Asylum" letter.

Item Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Co., 1944, Oct. 19 [frame 13.351]

Regarding the "Insane Asylum" letter.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen G. Walton, 1944, Oct. 19 [frame 13.352]

Regarding her attempt to explain Slogum House to her.

Item Little, Brown & Company to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 20 [frame 13.354-355]

Regarding the "Insane Asylum" letter.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jay Carpenter, 1944, Oct. 30 [frame 13.360-361]

Regarding his writing the story of Holt Co. region, Nebraska; on her method of writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lowry Wimberly, 1944, Oct. 30 [frame 13.363]

Regarding reports of the University prohibitionists.

Item Ed Weeks to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 30 [frame 13.364]

Regarding Slogum House into Armed Services editions.

Item Everett P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Oct. 31 [frame 13.366-368]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society new building; Dr. Sheldon position on the location of the new building; Crazy Horse Memorial.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1944, Nov. 1 [frame 13.370]

Regarding Crazy Horse; the race horse.

Item Mari Sandoz to Constance J. Wiltberger, Saturday Evening Post, 1944, Nov. 1 [frame 13.371-373]

Regarding how Sandoz came to write "Sulema," Crazy Horse source material; Devil's Tower.

Item LaMar Watts to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 1 [frame 13.375-376]

Regarding a writer in the military; considering Stars & Stripes; he's asked advice from Mari on writing.

Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Bancroft, 1944, Nov. 2 [frame 13.377-378]

Regarding Wallace Stegner article on fascists; Crazy Horse the race horse; politics of the day Dewey/Roosevelt; reprinting of Capitol City; 2nd contract for Slogum House.

Item Burton Harris to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 3 [frame 13.379]

Regarding a book trade, Pony Trails in Wyoming; California rancher J.K. Rollinson.

Item J.K. Rollinson to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 3 [frame 13.380]

Regarding book trade; his life as a cowboy in the Sandhills and Western Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to Governor Dwight Griswold, 1944, Nov. 10 [frame 13.389-390]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society new building location; University of Nebraska; trans-Missouri region.

Item Everett P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 14 [frame 13.395-396]

Regarding the Nebraska State Historical Society new building.

Item J. Carpenter to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 21 [frame 13.404-408]

Regarding Nebraska folklore; realism in writing; writing fiction, some of his family history; paper drives.

Item Mari Sandoz to A.B. Wood, 1944, Nov. 21 [frame 13.409-410]

Regarding a response to his letter; Sandoz speaks of her life in New York City; Old Jules; exposé on Omaha; Patton; Nebraska State Historical Society building.

Item Gov. Dwight Griswold to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 25 [frame 13.417]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society building site.

Item Charles Fuller to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Nov. 30 [frame 13.421-422]

Regarding Crazy Horse; forts on the Plains; Sibley Scouts history of the land in Little Big Horn Valley.

Item Caroline Bancroft to and from Sandoz, 1944, Nov.

This folder (November 1944) also contains several references to a play Harvey, written back and forth between Caroline Bancroft and Sandoz.

Item A.T. Hill, Nebraska State Historical Society to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Dec. [frame 13.428]

Regarding the new building.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Janet S. Hague, 1944, Dec. 6 [frame 13.432-433]

Regarding research for Old Jules and Crazy Horse; Swiss Lake communities; modern Switzerland; Hitler.

Item Caroline Bancroft to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Dec. 11 [frame 13.436]

Regarding more news about Harvey the play.

Item Mari Sandoz to Frank Ballard, 1944, Dec. 15 [frame 13.437]

Harvey, Zanuck, Hollywood.

Item E.P. Wilson to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Dec. 15 [frame 13.438-441]

Regarding an update on the Nebraska State Historical Society building site.

Item Mari Sandoz to Office of War Information, 1944, Dec. 19 [frame 13.446]

Regarding isolationists and subversion in the plains region.

Item Mari Sandoz to Editors, Saturday Review of Literature, 1944, Dec. 19 [frame 13.447-448]

Regarding isolationism, intellactual and otherwise.

Item Mari Sandoz to Maurice Sandoz, 1944, Dec. 22 [frame 13.450]

Regarding Fantastic Memories; Dali's art.

Item Maurice Sandoz to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Dec. 31 [frame 13.461]

Reply to her letter.

Item Paul Marti to Mari Sandoz, 1944, Dec. [frame 13.471]

Regarding his work in Omaha on B-29 bombers.

Item J. Carpenter to Mari Sandoz , 1944 [frame 13.473-476]

Regarding more on his family history.

Item Ruth Elliot to Mari Sandoz, 1944 [frame 13.485]

Regarding Old Jules and her connections to the Sandhills; Walter Reed.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1944 [frame 13.489-503]

Many letters from Helen Hayes regarding the social scene among their friend and acquaintances in Lincoln.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1945, Jan. 2 [frame 13.528]

Regarding sending "Spike-eared Dog", short story.

Item Mari Sandoz to Charles Fuller, 1945, Jan. 2 [frame 13.529]

Regarding reply to his letter; Crazy Horse; He Dog, Short Bull Sheridan, Wyoming; Valley of Little Big Horn; Crows; Medicine Wheel, Blackfeet; Montana State Historical Society; Fort Sarpy journals.

Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Hinman, 1945, Jan. 3 [frame 13.532-533]

Regarding her rejection from WACS - Hinman's enlistment; William Bordeaux - Nellie Larabee; World War II; Leonard Thiessen; Army Air Corps; Weldon Kees; Life and Death of Little Joe; A Bell for Adam; A Walk in the Sun; Mignon Eberhart.

Item Saturday Evening Post to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 3 [frame 13.535]

Regarding Sit Your Saddle Solid accepted for publication.

Item Adrian Hall to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 4 [frame 13.536-539]

Regarding experiences in post-war France; New Years Eve; French speakers; French food.

Item Mari Sandoz to Governor Dwight Griswold, 1945, Jan. 4 [frame 13.541]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society; Dr. Sheldon; Mari's blackmailer; political circle in Lincoln.

Item Will M. Derig,Attorney at Law to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 19 [frame 13.559-560]

Regarding Old Jules; Rosebud; Sandhills; U.S. Indian Service; Pacific Northwest forests.

Item Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 22 [frame 13.562]

Regarding "Spike-eared Dog" accepted.

Item Mari Sandoz to Tom S. Shaw, 1945, Jan. 22 [frame 13.563-564]

Regarding Old Jules and books on service.

Item Mari Sandoz to "Boss" Van Vleet, 1945, Jan. 27 [frame 13.570]

Regarding Sandoz is homesick for the high country; horses; "Potsdam disease."

Item Chambrun to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 29 [frame 13.571]

Regarding "Sit Your Saddle Solid" to be dramatized on radio.

Item Ralph Smith, The Omaha World-Herald to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Jan. 29 [frame 13.572]

Regarding Nebraska state tree.

Item Mari Sandoz to The Omaha World Herald, 1945, Feb. [frame 13.575-576]

Regarding the Nebraska state tree, cottonwood in Plains history; Sundance; Lakota.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, No Date [frame 13.577-581]

Regarding clipping about the vote on state tree for Nebraska.

Item A.J. Farrel to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 2 [frame 13.582]

Regarding Frank Grouard.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 3 [frame 13.584-585]

Regarding Nebraska state tree debate; cottonwood; Omaha World Herald; Lincoln Star, Journal; mayors of Lincoln.

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 3 [frame 13.587-588]

Regarding Lincoln social scene.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Ballard, 1945, Feb. 6 [frame 13.592-593]

Regarding her predicament over the state tree, cottonwood story; mayors of Lincoln.

Item Mari Sandoz to Omaha World Herald, 1945, Feb. 6 [frame 13.595]

Regarding cottonwood story.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Ballard, 1945, Feb. 7 [frame 13.601]

Regarding her preference for Lincoln Journal Star over Omaha World Herald; the fake interview incident with Elizabeth Hughes.

Item Mari Sandoz to Emile Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 8 [frame 13.603]

Regarding the timber wolf; wolf hunting; coyote hunting.

Item Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 10 [frame 13.610]

Regarding more on the Cottonwood debate; Omaha World Herald vs Lincoln Star debate.

Item Mari Sandoz to the Wichita, Kansas Chamber of Commerce, 1945, Feb. 14 [frame 13.622]

Regarding the high plains and health issues; physical superiority of plains people.

Item Mari Sandoz to Judge Lightner, 1945, Feb. 17 [frame 13.628]

Regarding short stories; Katherine Ann Porter; life in New York City; Cottonwood controversy.

Item Little, Brown to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 19 [frame 13.633]

Regarding movie rights to Slogum House.

Item Wichita Chamber of Commerce to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. 19 [frame 13.636]

Regarding physical exams and the draft; stats on disabilities.

Item Peggy Ferguson to Mari Sandoz, February 23, 1945 [frame 13.645-648]

Regarding her trip to Mexico; Central American; fiesta season.

Item Mari Sandoz to Donald Barry, 1945, Feb. 24 [frame 13.649]

Regarding movie rights to Slogum House.

Item Mari Sandoz to Irma Suchy, 1945, Feb. 24 [frame 13.651-652]

Regarding WACS enlistment; home front propaganda; Greenwich Village (historical homes there); Thomas Paine, Washington Irvin, William & Henry James, Mark Twain, Mabel Dodge Luhan; war workers; disillusioned Utopia; radio programs.

Item Lester G. Britton to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Feb. [frame 13.655-657]

Regarding his childhood in the Sandhills.

Item Donald Barry to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Mar. 2 [frame 13.659]

Regarding Slogum House.

Item Ed McLean to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Mar. 2 [frame 13.660-661]

Regarding Crazy Horse; Indian way of life...Ghost Dance.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. James Loeb, Union for Democratic Action, 1945, Mar. 6 [frame 13.667-668]

Regarding Nazism in America; Dr. Schonemann; Gerald P. Nye.

Item Mr. James Loeb to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Mar. 12 [frame 13.674]

Regarding appointment of Gerald P. Nye to Senate.

Item Mari Sandoz and Helen Hayes, 1945, Mar. 12 [frame 13.675-676]

Regarding Sandoz's health; street lights in New York City; Old Jules out of print.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ted Weeks, 1945, Mar. 19 [frame 13.685]

Regarding Fulton Lewis, Jr. and German drugs (St. Joseph asprin); farmers subsidies.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Ed McLean, 1945, Mar. 23 [frame 13.690]

Regarding Crazy Horse; Blackhills controversy; Marriots The 10 Grandmothers.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ed Fitzgeralds, 1945, Mar. 31 [frame 13.695]

Regarding Indian women as leaders/chiefs; matriarchal society; tribal life; the word "squaw."

Item Lucille Addison to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Apr. 4 [frame 13.701-702]

Regarding a student comments on Mari's story "Spring Snow."

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes, 1945, Apr. 4 [frame 13.704-705]

Regarding Oberfelder at the Lincoln Star Journal; curfews for servicemen; divisionists; migraines; the American Indian Ball, New York City.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. Robert W. Cumberland, 1945, Apr. 6 [frame 13.709]

Regarding Crazy Horse; minorities treatment by U.S.; speaking in public.

Item O. Stepanek, Dept. of English to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Apr. 8 [frame 13.717-722]

University; war-time language courses; Czechoslavakia; student Bob Luebs; the returning veteran; Doctorate of Literature; nomination.

Item Mari Sandoz to Miss Elaine Lambert Lewis, 1945, Apr. 10 [frame 13.724]

Regarding the folk song "Miss Bailey;" Scottish-Kentuckians; other folk songs.

Item Mari Sandoz to Oren Stepanek, 1945, Apr. 10 [frame 13.725-726]

Regarding an interesting note to researchers of her materials in the future; Veterans education; the T.V.A. fight; Boucher (head of the University); pages from her books cut out at the Administration's request; Sandoz believes she'll never receive a Ph.D. in literature from the University; The Tom Walker synopsis.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lucille Addison, 1945, Apr. 14 [frame 13.732]

Regarding "Spring Storm" and brother Jules; F.D.R. has died.

Item Mari Sandoz to Joseph P. Murphy, Glenn L. Martine, Nebraska Company, 1945, Apr. 25 [frame 13.743-744]

Regarding war-time industiral; looking at the future; post war U.S.

Item Governor Dwight Griswold to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Apr. 30 [frame 13.747]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society delayed; Ed Ross, a Texas cowboy.

Item "Doc" Bidwell to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Apr. [frame 13.748]

Regarding Easter greetings from Freed France.

Item Mari Sandoz to Dwight Griswold, 1945, May 2 [frame 13.756]

Regarding Nebraska State Historical Society and Ed Ross; she can't get to the Sandhills; farm and factory economy for Nebraska.

Item Mari Sandoz to William Rose Benet, Saturday Review of Literature, 1945, May 11 [frame 13.761]

Regarding campaigning with Crook; Chris Madsen; Yellow Hand.

Item Mari Sandoz to Rosalie Sandoz, 1945, May 11 [frame 13.762]

Regarding postwar college at Columbia; jobs in New York; the Louisiana Sandozs'.

Item Mari Sandoz to Walker D. Wyman, 1945, May 15 [frame 13.775]

Regarding Frederic Remington's art.

Item Walker D. Wyman to Mari Sandoz, 1945, May 17 [frame 13.777]

Regarding Frederic Remington's art.

Item Mari Sandoz to Ted Weeks, 1945, May 20 [frame 13.779]

Regarding lynchings on the Plains; this has to do with a book review.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. E.A. Brininstool, 1945, May 21 [frame 13.780]

Regarding "Benteen's Story;" Sioux soldiers; research at the Huntington Library.

Item Stanley Vestal to Mari Sandoz, 1945, May 23 [frame 13.786]

Regarding writing in the Southwest.

Item Mr. E.A. Brininstool to Mari Sandoz, 1945, May 25 [frame 13.789-790]

Regarding Buffalo Bill; love's book "The Truth About Buffalo Bull;" Lute (?) North; Frank North; Dr. Sheldon; Crazy Horse; General Jesse Lee; phoniness in movies and books of the old west; where his material went.

Item Ed Jesse to Mari Sandoz, 1945, May 28 [frame 13.793]

Regarding an article about Old Jules Sandoz.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1945, May 28

Regarding Unforgettable Character, He Dog.

Item Emily Schossberger to Mari Sandoz, 1945, May 29 [frame 13.798]

Regarding an anthology of Southwestern stories; Ben Botkin, Wimberly; "Folksay;" many western authors are mentioned.

Item Mari Sandoz to Emily Schossberger, 1945, May 31 [frame 13.800]

Regarding reply; mentions O. Henry, Hemingway, De Maupassant Prairie Schooner.

Item N.C. Abott to Mari Sandoz, 1945, June 4 [frame 13.807-808]

Regarding information about Old Jules & Arbor Day; also J. Sterling Morton; Nebraska State Historical Society; mentions Love Library.

Item Mari Sandoz to E. Schossberger, 1945, June 5 [frame 13.812]

Regarding reviewing books; captivity narratives.

Item Mari Sandoz to Fanny Butcher, Chicago Tribune, 1945, June 8 [frame 13.815]

Regarding the Ed Jesse letter.

Item Mari Sandoz to N.C. Abott, 1945, June 9 [frame 13.818-819]

Reply to his queries; J. Sterling; Nebraska State Historical Society; Old Jules' correspondence thrown away.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jacques Chambrun, from "Wally", 1945, June 11 [frame 13.820]

Regarding He Dog story rejected.

Item Ruth Beebe Hill (author of Hanta Yo) to Mari Sandoz, 1945, June 12 [frame 13.823-826]

Regarding "Sit Your Saddle Solid;" Denver Days.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1945, June 13 [frame 13.831]

Regarding rejection of "He Dog;" mentions the Van Vleet ranch, explains its owner and rules there.

Item Mari Sandoz to Saturday Evening Post Editorial Office, 1945, June 13 [frame 13.832]

Regarding Lewis Nordykes; "The Great Buffalo Round-Up of 1945;" Pawnee beliefs.

Item Doc Bidwell to Mari Sandoz, 1945, June 14 [frame 13.833-839]

Regarding his military "life" in the desert; John Thompson army news, World War II.

Item Mari Sandoz to Helen Hays, 1945, June 19 [frame 13.843]

Regarding Eisenhower's parade, New York City; warlords in China.

Item Mari Sandoz to Doc Bidwell, 1945, June 25 [frame 13.845-846]

Regarding Sandoz in Nederland, CO at the Van Vleet Ranch.

Item Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz, 1945, July [frame 13.851-853]

Regarding Nebraska artists; talks of Sandoz's portrait.

Item Mari Sandoz to Stanley Vestal, 1945, July 5 [frame 13.856]

Regarding his "Southwest" study of literature.

Item Paul Marti to Mari Sandoz, 1945, July 15 [frame 13.862-865]

Regarding life in the YMCA camp.

Item Mari Sandoz to "Ds" (DeVillbiss ?), 1945, Aug. 15 [frame 13.899]

Regarding V.J. day in Boulder, CO.

Item KEGR (Kay G. Rogers ?) to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Aug. 16 [frame 13.900]

Regarding World War II "over;" she's wondering if community canning projects and clothing drives will continue.

Item J. Demary to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Aug. 19 [frame 13.903-904]

Regarding Black Hawks war, army officers; treatment of Indians.

Item Mari Sandoz to Inez Baker, 1945, Aug. 24 [frame 13.910]

Regarding Crazy Horse, Solgum House and Old Jules

Item Mari Sandoz to Jerome Foster, 1945, Aug. 25 [frame 13.912]

Regarding his query about "faunching;" American Dialect Dictionary by Wentworth.

Item J. Paul Gardener to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Aug. 28 [frame 13.919]

Regarding his time spent in the Sandhills, Old Jules, coyote hunting

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. W.H. Little, 1945, Aug. 30 [frame 13.923]

Regarding "faunching;" background of her Swiss heritage; mentions Adam's (?); western dictionary and Van den Bark's slang dictionary.

Item Mari Sandoz to Tommy, 1945, Aug. [frame 13.925]

Regarding her treatment of migraine attacks (gynergen).

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Russell, Chicago Daily News, 1945, Sept. 7, 1945 [frame 13.931]

Regarding killing of Yellow Hand, Nebraska State Historical Society; Captain King; Chris Madsen, Buffalo Bill.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mr. A.M. Brookings, Hastings Museum, 1945, Sept. 14 [frame 13.944]

Regarding death of Crazy Horse; He Dog.

Item Mari Sandoz to Chambrun, 1945, Sept. 14 [frame 13.945]

Regarding some short fiction; the Van Vleet Ranch as subject matter.

Item Mari Sandoz to J. Paul Gardener, 1945, Sept. 16 [frame 13.949]

Regarding the Sandhills and Sandoz family.

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Richard E. Brennan, 1945, Sept. 17 [frame 13.950]

Regarding faunching and profanity.

Item Mari Sandoz to the Van Vleets, 1945, Sept. 19 [frame 13.953]

Regarding recent trip; Butter's Erewhon; Ramuz; man's debt to the land; mountain life.

Item Don Russell, Chicago Daily News to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Oct. 1 [frame 13.962-964]

Regarding Chris Madsen, Yellow Hand; Buffalo Bill; the King; Davenport affair.

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Russell, 1945, Oct. 3 [frame 13.696]

Regarding the above issue plus Frank Grourard; AGO records.

Item Viola Young to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Oct. 12 [frame 13.976-980]

Regarding American Indian art, Sioux, Navaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa); China, Russia; post war issues.

Item Mari Sandoz to William Rose Benet, 1945, Oct. 14 [frame 13.981]

Regarding Cheyenne; Geo. Bird Grinnell.

Item Mari Sandoz to Jeannett Cloud, Atlantic Monthly, 1945, Oct. 16 [frame 13.982]

Regarding Tom Walker; A-bomb.

Item Don Russell to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Oct. 22 [frame 13.987-988]

Regarding Buffalo Bill.

Item Mari Sandoz to The Frontier Press, 1945, Oct. 24 [frame 13.992]

Regarding Lakota vs. Dakota; Siouan languages; misconceptions and canards in American history; Plains Indians.

Item Mari Sandoz to Lederle Laboratories, 1945, Oct. 24 [frame 13.993]

Regarding undulant fever, medicine in the west; bangs disease.

Item Mari Sandoz to Don Russell, 1945, Oct. 24 [frame 13.995]

Regarding Buffalo Bill Cody.

Item Don Russell to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Oct. 26 [frame 13.1001]

Regarding Buffalo Bill Cody.

Item Mari Sandoz to Caroline Bancroft, 1945, Oct. 30 [frame 13.1012]

Regarding Mary Chase "Next Half Hour" a play; fascists, The Tom Walker.

Item Jim Sellers to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Nov. 1 [frame 13.1015]

Regarding Japanese Ben Kuroki.

Item Mari Sandoz to Elaine Lambert Lewis, 1945, Nov. 18 [frame 13.1031-1032]

Regarding folk songs.

Item H.E. Britzman to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Nov. 20 [frame 13.1036]

Regarding her gift of a book; Crazy Horse; Charles Russell; "Con" Price, an old cowboy.

Item Mari Sandoz to Encyclopedia Brittanica, Editorial Office, 1945, Nov. 26 [frame 13.1039]

Regarding information of the American Indian; Sitting Bull; misinformation; historical accuracy.

Item Paul McPharlin to Mari Sandoz, 1945, Nov. 27 [frame 13.1040]

Regarding Nebraska artist Terence Duran and Christmas essay request.

Item Mari Sandoz to Elaine Lewis, 1945, Nov. 28 [frame 13.1043-1044]

Regarding Script and folk songs; radio appearance; "Miss Bailey."




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