"When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the quotation, 'The end is nothing, the road is all.'"
- Personal interview
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Betty Kort Collection
Donated by Jim Southwick at a Willa Cather Foundation Board of Governors Meeting, June 8, 2008

50-1000-1 Property deed to J. Smith in Virginia, 1762. Lord Fairfax signed (Legend says that it was surveyed by George Washington.)

50-1000-2 Property deed to land adjacent to Jeremiah Smith signed by Light Horse Henry Lee, father of Robert E. Lee. (He was a general in the Revolutionary War.) Also a photocopy of the back. 1792.

50-1000-3 Framed transcription of 50-1000-2

50-1000-4 Douglass Cather notebook

50-1000-5 Charles F. Cather journal

50-1000-6 Charles F. Cather journal

50-1000-7 Property deed to Jeremiah Smith in Back Creek, Virginia 1793 (Framed)

50-1000-8 Horace poem inside book cover (with photocopy) "The Truth about Horace" actually written by Eugene Field

50-1000-9 American Express money order to Willa Cather

Together:

50-1000-10 James Cather legal document 1875

50-1000-11 William Cather to Estate of James Cather, ledger, debt

50-1000-12 Letter to Cathers from Virginia (Dear Cousin Charlie)

50-1000-13 Legal Miscellany

James Cather Treasurer Notes 1875, 1876

Two loan documents, 1874, 1869

Two City National Bank, Lincoln, checks, 1900

50-1000-14 Princeton Honorary Degree (two newspapers)

50-1000-15 Grand Manan watercolor by Edith Lewis

50-1000-16 Photo of Cather

50-1000-17 Indenture (Featigue = Charles's middle name)

50-1000-18 Jeremiah Smith's will with photocopy

50-1000-19 Douglass Cather's Grand Lodge Application

50-1000-20 Two sheets of Boak birth and death records

50-1000-21 1870 receipt (James Cather)

50-1000-22 Financial document between Samuel Smith, son of Jeremiah, and George Smith

50-1000-23 Collection of Confederate money

50-1000-24 Photocopy of letter to H.L Cather Southwick January 20, 1943

50-1000-25 Photocopy of letter to H.L Cather Southwick July 22, 1943

50-1000-26 Photocopy of letter to H.L Cather Southwick October 24, 1946

50-1000-27 Poem to Roscoe titled "To Roscoe with ”˜Seats of the Mighty'" by Gilbert Parker

50-1000-28 Two letters from Jenni to Charles (undated)

50-1000-29 Four letters from Charles to Jennie

50-1000-30 Photo of G.P. Cather's grave in France

50-1000-31 Photo at Grand Manan (unknown woman)

50-1000-32 Photo of Mary Virginia Auld, Virginia Cather, H.L. Cather, and Jessica Cather

50-1000-33 Agreement with C. W. Cather and heirs

50-1000-34 Letter from Virginia to Cathers, 1907, S.A. Smith

50-1000-35 C.F. Cather business Christmas card

50-1000-36 Barnum documents, 1856

50-1000-37 Letter from Douglass to father, June 30, 1929

50-1000-38 Two letters from Fanny Butcher to H.L. Cather, 1971, 1973

50-1000-39 Envelope from CF Cather to Cather with Cather's writing, 9-23-27

50-1000-40 Two envelopes from Gore Virginia, 1907, to CF Cather

50-1000-41 Photocopies of 50-1000-28 and 50-1000-29

50-1000-43 C.F. Cather's obituary in Commercial Advertiser

50-1000-44 C.F. Cather's death certificate

50-1000-45 Platt and Frees Co. C.F. Cather legal document 1891

50-1000-46 Probate document (George Hutchison)

50-1000-47 Dos Banderos Oil Douglass Cather

50-1000-48 Indenture (Sidney Cather Gore) widow of Mahlon Gore (ran a store in Back Creek) 1858

50-1000-49 George Cather lease (George Smith)

50-1000-50 McClure's, "The Diamond Mine," October 1916

50-1000-51 Willa Cather Centennial Concert and Review with picture

50-1000-52 New York Herald Tribune, Princeton, 1931

50-1000-53 New York Herald Tribune, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, 1933

50-1000-54 Books and Books Column, Pittsburgh Gazette, 1903 Review of April Twilights

50-1000-55 The Library, "The Conversion of Sum Loo"

50-1000-56 New York Times Book Review of Shadows on the Rock, 1931

50-1000-57 Cather article from The Nation, 1923

50-1000-58 Lipstick case

50-1000-59 Pen holder

50-1000-60 Two small metal purses

50-1000-61 Snake ring with accompanying 1984 WCPMN article explaining it

50-1000-62 Letter to C.F. Cather from Charles Moore, 1921

50-1000-63 Letter to H.L. Cather Southwick, December 20, 1939 (West = Virginia Brockway and East = Mary Virginia Cather Auld

50-1000-64 Edith Lewis's camera with cable release

50-1000-65 Log of sales accounts for novels

50-1000-66 C.F. Cather shares in Big Chief Oil and Gas

50-1000-67 Plot map and summary of George Smith land in Back Creek, 1793

50-1000-68 Rental agreement, 1840, Willes Crane Blacks and George Smith

50-1000-69 Charles F. Cather biography

50-1000-70 Cather's address book with H.L. Cather Southwick's picture

50-1000-71 C.F. Cather's 1872 journal (Trip to Colorado) and transcription

50-1000-72 Photocopy of letter to H.L. Cather Southwick, December 20, 1939