Scope and Contents The Bernice Slote papers contains her Willa Cather research materials and her personal papers. Research materials on Willa Cather are a large part of Slote's papers and contain the following: correspondence, early writings, newspaper clippings, periodical articles, short stories and poems as well as reviews and criticism of Cather and her works. This collection contains few original Cather letters. Some of the letters are not actual letters, rather paraphrases done presumably by Slote during...