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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 E.KProf. 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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