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Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit

… Image Rarely Seen Willa Cather Postcard on Exhibit September 25, 2019 In the recent … Memorial collection, we were happy to run across this postcard of Willa Cather to Charles Moore. Written during …
Posted: 09/24/2019
Last Updated: 09/26/2019

Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index

… Willa Cather Review Table of Contents & Index Table of Contents … Wide Interest in Willa Cather p. 3  10th Anniversary of Foundation p. 3  Future Event with John G. Neihardt p. 4  … p. 1  Conference Schedule p. 1  A Cornish Childhood p. 2  Gallery Holds "Feelings": Four Lucy Gayheart Paintings by …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 01/16/2023

New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection

… Image New Photos Join the Jack and Irma Cather Collection November 19, 2020 Throughout the year, … to light, including a John A. Bulkley portrait of teenaged Willa Cather, circa 1888. Bulkley, a Civil War veteran from … team, above, circa 1909. Printed on an uncirculated postcard, a handwritten note on the back of the card …
Posted: 11/19/2020
Last Updated: 12/28/2020

Finding Aids

… Jr., Private Library No. 22 Alcott, Louisa M. Old-Fashioned Girl 1887 Wm. Cather Jr., Private Library No. 24 Alcott, … 1901 n/a Cummins, Maria S. The Lamplighter: Or An Orphan Girl's Struggles and Triumphs n/d n/a Cushing, Mary Watkins … Cather March 1912 Magazine Publication Tx-50-4000-F60 "The Bohemian Girl" Original Publication in  McClures Magazine …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 03/09/2026

"Greatness Returning to Simplicity":

… Image Death Comes for the Archbishop first edition Image Cather Postcard from Arizona (1912) Image Cather's annotated source material "Greatness Returning to Simplicity": Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop Regularly …
Posted: 01/29/2026
Last Updated: 01/30/2026

Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud

… niece, 1909 Annotations From the Archives: Thanksgiving in Red Cloud November 7, 2025 "There we have short, bitter winters; … Red Cloud was.” If you've ever thought of coming home (or visiting) Red Cloud over the holidays, Cather's dear old …
Posted: 11/06/2025
Last Updated: 11/07/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour

… again this fall, we journey to Santa Fe to explore one of Cather's favorite cities. Our tour guide, Garrett Peck, will … author, historian, and tour guide in Santa Fe. He leads the Willa Cather’s Santa Fe walking tour, and his new book The Bright Edges of the World: Willa Cather and Her Archbishop is available for preorder .  …
Posted: 10/30/2025
Last Updated: 10/30/2025

Cather's Santa Fe: A Walking Tour - SOLD OUT!

… Image Cather wrote to decline a lecture request in 1925, using this La Fonda postcard Join us on the Plaza! Special Events Wednesday, Nov … visit the Cathedral on your own before joining the National Willa Cather staff for a drink and small bites nearby, …
Posted: 09/18/2023
Last Updated: 10/15/2024

Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions

… to writing “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” Hale is perhaps best known for her two decades of lobbying for the creation of … by Heaven to recognize all merit, in small things as well as great. She succeeded in getting a personal interview … and images are in our Collections & Archives, you can link to the letter transcriptions, and "The Origin of …
Posted: 11/20/2019
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

Annotations from the Archive: Discovering Emanuel Prettyman

… the years. After her death, a great deal of Wagner’s Cather collections were donated to us in Red Cloud, including … we were just beginning to build our new archives at the National Willa Cather Center, storage space was at a … only image of Prettyman identified. Research continues to learn more about Prettyman’s life; his military records and …
Posted: 04/23/2022
Last Updated: 05/23/2023

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