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Finding aid compiled by: Timothy Esh, under the direction of the Special Collections & Archives Committee, 2004; revised and augmented by Lucy K. Marks, 2006.
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Table of Contents
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Note: Each entry is followed by the Crane bibliography number and the Drew call number.
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The Troll Garden. New York : McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
1st ed., 1st issue. From the library of Earl Brewster, with his signature. Crane A4.a. BREWSTER 16.
The Troll Garden. Obscure Destinies. Franklin Center, Pa. : The Franklin Library, 1981. Series: The Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers. "Limited edition." CASPERSEN 79
Milmine, Georgine. The Life of Mary G. Baker Eddy and the History of Christian Science. New York : Doubleday, Page, 1909.
1st ed., 1st print. Edited by Cather. First published in McClure's magazine, Jan. 1907-Jun. 1908. With Adams's ms. notes; ms. note signed by Witter Bynner, Feb. 12, 1934 (p. [v]), concerning Willa Cather's contribution to the work; inserted are the entry for this book from the 1934 Duschnes catalogue, and Adams's typed account of his conversation with Edith Lewis, Mar. 21, 1950, describing how Cather came to edit the work. Crane AAA1.a.i. ADAMS 168 2i.
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My Ántonia. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1937. Series: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather, vol. 4 of 13. Autograph ed., 1st issue. Crane AA1. CASPERSEN 20.
My Ántonia. Franklin Center, Pa. : The Franklin Library, 1978. Series: The 100 Greatest Masterpieces of American Fiction. "Limited edition." CASPERSEN 78.
Youth and the Bright Medusa. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1920.
1st ed., 1st print., trade issue. Dust jacket. Front flap of dust jacket contains an error, referring to Cather's first novel, Alexander's Bridge, as Alexandra's Bridge. Crane A10.a.i. CASPERSEN 44.
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Shadows on the Rock. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1931.
1st ed., 1st print., trade issue. Bookplate of Helen and Carleton R. Richmond. Crane A17.a.i. CASPERSEN 38 (2 copies; cop. 2 with dust jacket)
Shadows on the Rock. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1931.
1st ed., 1st print., limited issue. No. 5 of 199 signed copies printed on Shidzuoka Japan vellum. Crane A17.a.i. CATHER 3.
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December Night: a Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop." New York : A.A. Knopf, 1933.
1st ed. in this format. Crane A16.1. ADAMS 167 29a and CASPERSEN 73 (2 copies; cop. 1 with dust jacket)
December Night: a Scene from Willa Cather's Novel "Death Comes for the Archbishop." New York : A.A. Knopf, 1933.
1st ed. in this format. Dust jacket. A.N.s from Cather to Louise Burroughs tipped in at front. Crane A16.1. BURROUGHS 11.
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Lucy Gayheart. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1935.
1st ed., 2nd print. From the library of Earl Brewster; card inserted in front: "With the compliments of Miss Willa Cather." Crane A20.a.ii. BREWSTER 17.
Lucy Gayheart & My Mortal Enemy. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
Series: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather, vol. 11 of 13. Autograph ed., 1st issue. Crane AA1. CASPERSEN 27.Not Under Forty. New York : A.A. Knopf, 19361935.
Large paper issue. "Of the first edition ... seven hundred and forty-nine copies (of which seven hundred and twenty-four are for sale) have been printed on Croxley rag paper. Each copy is signed by the author"--P. [2] at front. Crane A20.a.i (limited issue) CASPERSEN 64 (2 copies, numbered 270 and 447)
Lucy Gayheart & My Mortal Enemy. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1937.
Series: The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather, vol. 11 of 13. Autograph ed., 1st issue. Crane AA1. CASPERSEN 27.
Not Under Forty. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1936.
1st ed., 1st print., trade issue. Crane 1st ed., 1st print., trade issue. Crane A21.a.i. ADAMS 167 6.
Not Under Forty. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1936.
1st ed., 1st print., trade issue. Dust jacket. Presentation copy from Cather to Louise Burroughs, dated Nov. 23, 1936. Crane A21.a.i. BURROUGHS 16.
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Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1940.
Book-of-the-Month Club printing. Without "First ed." and with variant colophon.
Crane A22.a.i. CASPERSEN 37 (2 copies; cop. 2 with dust jacket)
Sapphira and the Slave Girl. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1940.
Book-of-the-Month Club printing. Without "First ed." and with variant colophon. Crane A22.a.i. CATHER 5.
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On Writing: Critical Studies on Writing as an Art. New York : A.A. Knopf, 1949.
1st ed., 1st print. Foreword by Stephen Tennant. Dust jacket. Presentation copy to Yehudi Menuhin from his mother, dated Los Gatos, California, 1949. Crane AA2.a.i. MENUHIN 6 and CASPERSEN 72 (E.K. Brown's copy (as noted by Leon Edel), with his underlinings in text and penciled notes on back flyleaf; signature and penciled notes by Leon Edel on front flyleaf and back pastedown)
Writings from Willa Cather's Campus Years. James R. Shively, editor. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, 1950.
Includes "Letters from Willa Cather's Contemporaries" : p. [113]-142. Crane AA3. ADAMS 167 7.
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Cather, Willa. 4 A.L.s and 1 T.L.s to Earl and Achsah Barlow Brewster, 1917-1934.
A.L.s dated January 7, 1917 ; February 16; February 21 [1923]; and November 29; T.L.s dated July 1, 1934. Three of the letters written on paper headed "Number Five Bank Street"; 2 on paper headed "W.S.C." Cather refers to the Brewsters' writings and paintings, describes a transatlantic crossing with Edith Lewis, mentions the success of several of her own works, and confides to the Brewsters that Edith Lewis dislikes Cather's friends, the Hambourgs. BREWSTER 22.
Cather, Willa. T.L.s to Prof. Brown, Feb. 23, 1929.
Written on headed stationery of The Grosvenor. [1] leaf. Cather declines to give Prof. Brown permission to include her story "Double Birthday" in a textbook before it appears in a collection of stories from her publisher. She gives permission to use "The Sculptor's Funeral," and questions why that story is more popular than "Paul's Case," which she considers a much better story. CASPERSEN 76
Cather, Willa. 69 A.L.s or A.N.s (including 4 postcards) and 6 T.L.s to Louise Burroughs, 1925-1946, most with autograph envelopes.
With Burroughs's occasional penciled notes in margins. Includes also letters from Burroughs and 10 others: 5 letters from Burroughs, including T.L. to Cather and A.L. draft to Edith Lewis; and 16 letters (7 A.L.s, 9 T.L.s) from 10 others: to Burroughs from Malcolm Wyer, Kathleen Campbell, Sarah Bloom, Edith Lewis, George D. Crothers and Morton Zabel; to Cather from Van Wyck Brooks, Bruce Rogers, and her Nebraska friends Anna Pavelka and Lydia Lambrecht. Includes also unsigned, undated typescript, with Cather's ms. corrections and note, of poem "A Lament" (published later as "Poor Marty"), dated by Burroughs "Xmas 1926," and 2 unsigned woodblock Christmas cards designed by Bryson Burroughs between 1928 and 1933. In her letters to Burroughs, Cather asks for research assistance, writes about her current reading, reflects on her work, and refers to Yehudi Menuhin, D.H. and Frieda von Richthofen Lawrence, the Lindberghs, Mabel Dodge Luhan, Edna St. Vincent Millay, the MacDowell Colony and the death of Isabelle McClung Hambourg. With literary articles, book reviews and obituaries, and an inscribed photograph from Cather, dated Jan. 1, 1926. Burroughs's exchanges with Edith Lewis regard Cather's religious affiliation and Lewis's memoir of Cather. BURROUGHS 26.
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Cather, Willa. A.L.s to Rev. J.R. Henry. Pittsburgh, June [22?], 1897. Autograph envelope postmarked Pittsburgh, June 22, 1897 ; "Tuesday" at head of text, without date. Cather tells Henry that she is soon to leave for a month in Red Cloud, Neb., and thanks him for his kindness to her in Pittsburgh ; T.L.s to Adams from the book dealer Robert Black, dated Jan. 30, 1955, and Black's sales catalogue description of the letter. ADAMS 140.
Cather, Willa. A.L.s to Samuel Marshall Ilsley. New York, Jan. 9, [1934]
Written on headed stationery of The Grosvenor. [1] leaf. Cather sends greetings to "all my friends in Santa Barbara," and thanks Marshall for the news and photograph of Katherine Hooker, about whom Ilsley wrote a memoir. CASPERSEN 77
Cather, Willa. A.L.s to Ruth N. James. [New Brunswick] Aug. 23, [ Ruth N. James. [New Brunswick] Aug. 23, [1931]
On stationery with her initials. Autograph envelope postmarked Aug. 1931. Cather thanks James for her appreciative letter. Mounted and framed with reproduction of photograph of Cather. CATHER 19.
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Original proof of a photograph of Willa Cather (26 x 21 cm.), ca. 1903. With Seibel, George. A.L.s. to Frederick Adams, Pittsburgh, May 28, 1949. ADAMS 167 49.
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Reproduction of photograph of Cather (24 x 19 cm.), 1922. Inscribed: "Willa Sibert Cather. New York, September 29, 1922. (Photographed in the Cliff Dweller ruins in Mexico.)" CATHER 21.
Studio portrait of Cather (19.9 x 14 cm on board 25 x 18 cm.), 1895. Graduation picture, University of Nebraska. Beneath photograph: "Townsend Paris panel 225 S. 11th St. Lincoln, Neb." Inscribed on verso: “To Jeanne Shaffer from Helen Cather Southwick. Aunt Willa’s graduation picture, 1895.” Helen Cather Southwick was Cather's niece. CASPERSEN 74
Original photograph of Cather (23 x 18 cm. within frame 25 x 20 cm.), 1932. Inscribed by Cather: “My latest photograph for Marcella Hahner. Willa Cather. October 1932.” Marshall Field label affixed to verso of frame. (Marcella Hahner was buyer for the book section of Marshall Field in Chicago.) CASPERSEN 75
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Realia
Six objects associated with Death Comes for the Archbishop, the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe and St. Francis Cathedral in Santa Fe, N.M.:
- Incense burner in shape of an adobe house
- Painted tin plaque showing the Virgin of Guadalupe. Signed: Anita Romero James.
- Painted wooden plaque showing the Virgin of Guadalupe. Signed: Jacqueline Nelson.
- Small wood model of St. Francis Cathedral. Signed: Johnson ’88.
- Carved wood statue of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Signed: Leonard Salazar 87.
- Painted clay pitcher with braided handle and 2 spouts. Signed: Connie Garcia.