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Annotations from the Archive: Business Papers
… Papers July 20, 2021 When the prohibition on publication of Willa Cather’s letters expired, a wealth of new Willa Cather … of this investment and wrote to Roscoe several times about it, finally asking in 1939, “Can you, as a banker, …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive
… her participation in local literary societies. Within its pages were several meeting plans with assignments listed for … helps us to tell Willa Cather's story more fully. Please contact our archivist, Tracy Tucker, with inquiries at: …
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Annotations from the Archive: Explore the Collection Online
… Explore the Collection Online February 16, 2021 The Cather family, their friends, and many other donors have been very generous to the National Willa Cather Center over the years, contributing to … to Red Cloud are encouraged to reach out with questions about access. The new collections tools will highlight the …
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Annotations from the Archive—The Right Reverend George Allen Beecher Letters
… Nebraska from 1910-1943, shared a long friendship with Willa Cather, and with the whole Cather family. He confirmed … different. One of the things Beecher most appreciated about Cather, he says in this address, was her “study and …
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Annotations from the Archive: Early Magazine Days
… (March 28, 1897), with these observations at the start of Cather's early and prolific career in magazine writing and … literary tastes are, her club standing, her home, her legal studies, how she came to take them up etc. You know what I … bank he is president of. Well I did'nt mean to write you a volume, and of course nothing may come of it. But my …
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Annotations from the Archive: Herbaria of Webster County
… belonged and invent names of our own for them." When Willa Cather described her prairie childhood in "The Education You … are sent me." In fact, some suggestions from Swezey about classification of wildflowers of the Great Plains did …
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Annotations from the Archive: Webster County Collections
… Collections February 25, 2022 The installation of the Crossroads exhibit, from the Smithsonian’s Museum on Main … exhibit that I’m sure our guests will enjoy. Alongside the Crossroads exhibit though is a smaller local exhibition of … in letters to her Red Cloud acquaintances, she wrote about events like those depicted in the exhibit—business openings …
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Annotations From the Archive: John Mallory Bates
… recent addition to our archival collections at the National Willa Cather Center, Cather writes to “Mr. Perrin,” whose family … Cather Center in Red Cloud. The Willa Cather Newsletter and Review. Vol. 45, Summer 2001 . The Blue Book of Nebraska …
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Annotations from the Archive: Benefit
… the Archive: Benefit February 6, 2023 On February 4, 1888, Willa Cather and her friends staged a musical version of “Beauty … direction of Will O’Brien and Peoriana Bogardus Sill for about two weeks. The $40 they raised from admissions to the …
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Annotations from the Archive: Thanksgiving Traditions
… —from the essay, "Nebraska: The End of the First Cycle," by Willa Cather [ The Nation , September 5, 1923] Thanksgiving, as … things with which we are most familiar that we know least about. Familiarity seems to dull the edge of our curiosity. …
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