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Bernice Slote, English Papers

 Collection — Folder: 001 (from box 24)
Identifier: RG-12-10-16
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...
Dates: 1734-1987
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Charles E. Cather Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0350
Scope and Contents The Charles E. Cather Collection is comprised of manuscripts, both handwritten and typewritten, of several of Willa Cather's novels and short stories. The majority of the manuscript material is from her novel Sapphira and the Slave Girl. There are letters sent from Cather to her brother James, her sister-in-law Ethel, and her nephew Charles. Contracts for selected novels, both from Houghton-Mifflin and Alfred Knopf, are part of the materials. There is...
Dates: 1860s-2007; Majority of material found within 1924-1971
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Philip and Helen Cather Southwick Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0077
Scope and Contents The Southwick materials include correspondence written to Cather in regard to her works, particularly One of Ours and Sapphira and the Slave Girl. Of great significance are the manuscripts represented in the collection, including revisions made in Cather's hand to eleven of her books and short stories. The collection contains photographs of Cather throughout her life, including her travels to Europe. There are also photographs...
Dates: 1865-1992
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0316
Scope and Contents The Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection is comprised of letters written by Willa Cather, Roscoe Cather, Meta Schaper Cather, Elsie Cather, Edith Lewis, and other family members or friends of Cather. The letters Cather wrote to her brother show a close and loving relationship between the two siblings. Cather shared personal stories, asked questions about financial matters, and shared thoughts about her work. Cather believed that Roscoe, of all her family, best understood her goals and...
Dates: 1884-1988
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Susan J. and James R. Rosowski Cather Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-0228
Scope and Contents The Rosowski Cather Collection is named in honor of University of Nebraska–Lincoln Professor Susan J. Rosowski. The collection includes materials relating to Willa Cather and her family, such as her parents and particularly her sister Elsie Cather. Included are letters to Isabelle McClung and letters about her health. In addition, the collection documents the friendship between Willa Cather, Edith Lewis, and Stephen Tennant. The majority of Tennant correspondence is comprised of letters...
Dates: 1861-1992; 1879-1928
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

Virginia Faulkner, Editor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: RG-12-10-20
Scope and Contents The materials include correspondence to Faulkner, both personal and business, from 1930-1980. Those items of correspondence that are not written by Faulkner include letters sent to her by Wright Morris, Bernice Slote, and Helen Cather Southwick, Willa Cather's niece. Other materials include articles written by Faulkner and notes that she gathered on Willa Cather's writings and on Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant. The item entitled, Dream Bien Meublé is an un-revised Cather-related article by...
Dates: 1930-1980
Found in: Archives & Special Collections, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries

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