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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 39. Folder 18. Correspondence, 1966, Jan.-1967, Dec. [Microfilm Reel MS00040]Item Poem, "Perspective" by Lawrence R. Thomas 1966, Jan. 2 [reel 0040.4]

Item Paul Marti to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 6 [reel 0040.8-9]

Regarding Marti's activities in Lincoln, Nebraska

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicholl [University of Nebraska Press] 1966, Jan. 6 [reel 0040.11]

Regarding Sandoz's autobiography will not be written

Item Martha Sandoz Petersen to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 7 [reel 0040.12-17]

Regarding Garden Flower Club meeting in Gordon, Nebraska; news from the Sandhills, news of the Sandoz family

Item Mrs. Frank Monroe to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 7 [reel 0040.18-19]

Regarding Sandoz's relatives in various parts of the country

Item Hal McCann to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 8 [reel 0040.22-25]

Regarding Old Jules Country; Lakota artist Standing Soldier; Niobrara river

Item Miles N. Lee to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 10 [reel 0040.27]

Regarding Festus Carrothers story

Item Bernard Milofsky to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 10 [reel 0040.28]

Regarding Sandoz's health; Milofsky's writing

Item Mrs. Charles Aronson to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.32-33]

Regarding Sandoz's health; cancer research

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Richard B. Arens 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.34]

Regarding Crazy Horse; Miss Morissa

Item Mari Sandoz to Lars Benkston 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.35]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn; the movie version of the book

Item Mari Sandoz to H. A. [Hal] McCann 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.38]

Regarding cattle drive; Standing Soldier's art

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. Frank Monroe 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.39]

Regarding Louisiana Sandozes; Mari's travels in Texas

Item Mari Sandoz to Father Peter J. Powell 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.40]

Regarding identifying photographs of Cheyennes; Charlie Heyl; Otterby; Dog Soldiers; Cheyenne Shield Society

Item Mari Sandoz to Jules Sandoz [Jr.] 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.41]

Regarding correcting a date error in Old Jules Country; Mari's health

Item Mari Sandoz to Louise Standard 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.42]

Regarding Lakota Sioux of Pine Ridge, South Dakota; improving educational opportunity

Item Mari Sandoz to Miles N. Lee 1966, Jan. 12 [reel 0040.43]

Regarding the Carrothers story

Item Mrs. Frank Monroe to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 16 [reel 0040.45-52]

Regarding Sandoz's health; Monroe travelling the country; writing

Item Nelle Johansen Marcy to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 17 [reel 0040.54-55]

Regarding Sandoz's health; memories of Sandoz as a girl; Old Jules Country

Item Florence Herr [International Indian Friendship Society] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 20 [reel 0040.57-58]

Regarding Sandoz's "Indian" writings; Cheyenne readers of Mari's books; European perceptions of Native American tribal people; purpose of the Indian Friendship Society

Item Harold Strauss [Hastings House] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 21 [reel 0040.60]

Regarding request for commentary from Sandoz about John Alden's Pioneer America

Item Mari Sandoz to Harold Strauss [Hastings House] 1966, Jan. 26 [reel 0040.62]

Regarding Sandoz will read galley of Alden's Pioneer America

Item Martha Petersen to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 27 [reel 0040.63-68]

Regarding family news from the Sandhills; winter weather conditions, cattle raising and stock prices; other family news

Item Walter & Esther Flueckinger to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 28 [reel 0040.70-71]

Regarding winter conditions in the Sandhills; coyotes

Item Mari Sandoz to Mrs. O.E. Black 1966, Jan. 28 [reel 0040.73]

Regarding professional writing organizations

Item Mari Sandoz to Frederick Goshe 1966, Jan. 28 [reel 0040.74]

Regarding Sandoz's illness

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 31 [reel 0040.76-77]

Regarding winter in Nebraska; news from Lincoln, Nebraska; Meredith's health

Item Mrs. Howard Sandoz to Mari Sandoz 1966, Jan. 31 [reel 0040.79-83]

Regarding death of Howard Sandoz

Item Mrs. O.E. Black to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 1 [reel 0040.89]

Regarding American Pen Women organization; John G. Neihardt

Item Ann Ford [Houghton Mifflin] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 1 [reel 0040.90]

Regarding La Farge's Man With the Calabash Pipe

Item Mrs. Edith Dominick to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 2 [reel 0040.94-95]

Regarding Old Jules Country

Item Mrs. Arnold Gesterfield to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 2 [reel 0040.96]

Regarding Mari's illness

Item Bruce Nicholl [University of Nebraska Press] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 3 [reel 0040.98]

Regarding Harvey Dunn paintings; another collection of Sandoz's writings; "The Christmas of the Phonograph Records"

Item Archie and Patricia Teater to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 3 [reel 0040.99-100]

Regarding the Teaters' European travels; Mari's health

Item Carolyn Blakemore [Lippincott] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 7 [reel 0040.101]

Regarding The Battle of the Little Bighorn

Item Mari Sandoz to Edith Dominick 1966, Feb. 7 [reel 0040.102]

Regarding Sandoz to autograph book for Dominick's grandson

Item Mari Sandoz to Bruce Nicholl [University of Nebraska Press] 1966, Feb. 7 [reel 0040.103]

Regarding "The Christmas of the Phonograph Records;" Sandoz refuses "another anthology"

Item G. Haupt [Germany] to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 8 [reel 0040.104-105]

Regarding The Beaver Men

Item Paul Marti to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 11 [reel 0040.115-117]

Regarding Marti's activities in Lincoln, Nebraska; Sandoz's health; Sandoz Hall on University of Nebraska campus

Item Mary Ann Pifer to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 11 [reel 0040.118]

Regarding upcoming wedding; news from Boulder, Colorado

Item Mari Sandoz to Carolyn Blakemore 1966, Feb. 11 [reel 0040.121]

Regarding The Battle of the Little Bighorn proofs

Item Mari Sandoz to Mary Ann Pifer 1966, Feb. 17 [reel 0040.129]

Regarding marriage

Item A.J. Bolinger to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 18 [reel 0040.132]

Regarding Charles [Buffalo] Jones; Bolinger's youth in Kansas

Item Alga Sheldon to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 18 [reel 0040.133]

Regarding jelly and jams; Robert Henri; Mrs. Barmore in Texas

Item Melvin Van de Bark to Mari Sandoz [1966,] Feb. 22 [reel 0040.138]

Regarding happenings in Norman, Oklahoma; Old Jules Country

Item Mari Sandoz to John A. Minion 1966, Feb. 24 [reel 0040.142]

Regarding Death of a Survivor; Chris Madsen, the killing of Yellow Hand

Item Helen Sandoz to Mari Sandoz 1966, Feb. 25 [reel 0040.144]

Regarding news of the Sandoz family

Item Mari Sandoz to James F. Carr 1966, Feb. 27 [reel 0040.145]

Regarding Son of the Gamblin' Man

Item George Leys to Mari Sandoz 1966, Mar. 1 [reel 0040.150]

Regarding yearly Sandoz "get together"; Sandoz's "talk" on Channel 13

Item P. Sugden to Mari Sandoz 1966, Mar. 1 [reel 0040.151]

Regarding Crazy Horse's death

Item Mari Sandoz to Doris Kantor 1966, Mar. 7 [reel 0040.153]

Regarding Miss Morissa project

Item Maryanne Prince to Mari Sandoz 1966, Mar. 8 [reel 0040.154]

Regarding film on KUON TV with Neihardt narrating

Item Mamie Meredith to Carolyn Sandoz Pifer 1966, May 30 [reel 0040.160-161]

Regarding Sandoz materials; Sandoz museum

Item Mrs. O.E. Black to Mari Sandoz 1966 [date unknown] [reel 0040.164]

Regarding death of Ode Black, request that Sandoz join the "Pen women"

Item Alida Malkus to Mari Sandoz 1966 [date unknown] [reel 0040.167]

Regarding mutual friends; writing

Item Alida Malkus to Mari Sandoz 1966 [date unknown] [reel 0040.177]

Power of Attorney to Flora Sandoz [note]

Item Clementine Dennison to Mari Sandoz 1967, Dec. 14 [reel 0040.185]

Regarding Old Jules

Item "Study Club" item regarding Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.213]

Item Louise [Austin?] to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.214]

Regarding news from Muchen, Germany, art school

Item Fred Ballard to - "Scully's Scrapbook" - sent to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.220]

Regarding James P. Beckwourth

Item Harold Becker to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.223]

Regarding request that Sandoz speak at Omaha Philosophical Society; Becker's heritage and writings

Item Helen Bixby to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.232-233]

Regarding Bixby's bookstore in Lincoln

Item Helen Bixby to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.234-237]

Regarding news from Lincoln; mutual friends and acquaintances

Item Mari Sandoz to B.A. Botkin [undated] [reel 0040.240-241]

Regarding The Prairie Schooner article

Item Tyler Buchenau to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.245-247]

Regarding news from New York City

Item Homer Croy to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.280]

Regarding National Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City

Item Martha Dickerson to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.296]

Regarding Gerry Harvey at Taos; involvement with Taos Indians at Blue Lake; environmental issues; conservation issues

Item Marcia Eastwood to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.314]

Regarding Old Jules

Item Martha Fiegenbaum to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.319-333]

Various letters and notes; some are incomplete

Item Anne Folsom[?] to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.338-340]

Regarding illustrating an "Indian Book for Sandoz"

Item Gillian Goolsby to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.354-355]

Regarding Sandozes of Switzerland

Item Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.388-424]

Several partial letters concerning occurrences in Lincoln; various friends and family news

Item John Herman to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.426-435]

Regarding Herman's writings and publications

Item Maud Houghlan to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.444]

Regarding summer rodeos in the West; political issues; Native people in Northern Plains; Plateau

Item Doris Kauter to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.455-456]

Regarding war-time in New York City; new from Book-of-the-Month Club

Item "The Sod House"' "Ode to a Sod House" [undated] [reel 0040.460-462]

Item Wilhelm Kiefer to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.464-465]

Regarding German language letter

Item George Kirk to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.466-467]

Regarding Cozad relatives

Item Madge Knoblock to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.469-471]

Regarding Christmas letter

Item University of Nebraska Television [KUON-TV] announcement program to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.475]

Regarding Sandoz

Item Gregory Levin to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.493-495]

Regarding a staged drama of Crazy Horse [Sandoz writes "NO" on top of the letter]

Item Alida Malkus to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.513-514]

Regarding Cheyenne Autumn

Item Robert Morrison to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.530]

Regarding someone's musings about Sandoz

Item Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.533-640]

Incomplete and undated correspondence; various topics

Item Richard D. Rowen [Nebraska State Historical Society] to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.644]

Regarding Nebraska historic buildings

Item Robert Phipps to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.670]

Regarding Old Jules

Item Caroline [Sandoz] Pifer to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.674]

Regarding making paper images

Item Father Peter J. Powell to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.680-685]

Regarding Indian-themed Christmas cards; Echo-hawk artwork

Item Blanche and Fritz Sandoz to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.705-713]

Greeting cards and partial letters

Item Flora Sandoz - "Old Jules" jams and jellies [undated] [reel 0040.716]

Item Mari Sandoz to "Mr. Clement" [undated] [reel 0040.718]

Regarding Clement's writing

Item Mari Sandoz to Marie Cronley [undated] [reel 0040.719]

Regarding Cronley's writing

Item About Charley Dawes, Harley Boydley [undated] [reel 0040.720]

Item About Dewey Fischer's "Souvenir" [undated] [reel 0040.721-722]

Item About Marianne Hauser [undated] [reel 0040.725-726]

Item About Eleanor Hinman's writing [undated] [reel 0040.728-729]

Item Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Hinman [undated] [reel 0040.730]

Regarding Sandoz is despairing

Item Mari Sandoz to Maude Houghlan [undated] [reel 0040.731]

Regarding Sandoz in Montana

Item Mari Sandoz to Fred Howard [undated] [reel 0040.732]

Regarding the Olive Gang; American "privilege"; "underdogs and overdogs"

Item About Sidnee Livingston [undated] [reel 0040.733]

Item About Robert Springer [undated] [reel 0040.734-735]

Item Mari Sandoz to John J. Whitney Foundation [undated] [reel 0040.736]

Regarding Charles Nilon

Item Mari Sandoz to Miss McIlhatton [undated] [reel 0040.740-741]

Regarding galley proofs of The Horsecatcher

Item Mari Sandoz to Tom Spence [undated] [reel 0040.745]

Regarding death of Chris Madsen; Buffalo Bill and the death of Yellow Hand

Item Mari Sandoz to H.D. Wimer [undated] [reel 0040.747]

Regarding Sappa fight; Northern Cheyennes

Item "Dear Writer" - a form letter [undated] [reel 0040.748]

Item KUON to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.749]

Regarding Bernice Slote to interview Sandoz

Item Helen Schmidt to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.751-758]

Regarding teaching at Pine Ridge Reservation

Item Rita Shaw to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.770-771]

Regarding Ron Hull's project for KUON-TV; interview with Sandoz

Item Rita Shaw to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.775-776]

Regarding Shaw's ideas for her project "Echoes of Nebraska"

Item Evelyn Soukup to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.785-792]

Regarding death of Martha Fiegenbaum; Helen Haye's condition; various other notes

Item Robert Springer to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.794-796]

Regarding Springer's work at "the Sanctuary" in New Hampshire

Item Charles Leonard Thiessen to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.812-815]

Regarding Thiessen's art work

Item Melvin Van Den Bark to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.834]

Regarding news from Lincoln

Item Obituary for Colonel Edward Wentworth [undated] [reel 0040.850]

Item Various announcements from Western Writers of America [undated] [reel 0040.851-855]

Item Eunice Winston to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.865-869]

"Reminiscences"

Item Marguerite Young to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.874-880]

Regarding Young's writing

Item Viola Young to Mari Sandoz [undated] [reel 0040.878-887]

Regarding Young's writing; various notes

Item Miscellaneous, undated notes in Sandoz's handwriting and typescript - various topics, mostly to do with Great Plains [undated] [reel 0040.892-1023]

Item Miscellaneous letters, manuscripts, and notes with no signatures or dates [undated] [reel 0040.1024-1058]




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