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Virtual Author Series: Jonis Agee

… a copy of the novel  online or in person from our National Willa Cather Center Bookstore. This author series event is made …
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Nature as Muse Exhibit

… by an element of nature; the same landsape that inspired Willa Cather has inspired these three artists. Mary Vaughan is a …
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Literary Societies—Annotations from the Archive

… students returning to school, we always think of Frances Cather, Willa Cather's Mount Holyoke-educated aunt who came West to … recalling her old life. In an 1893 letter to Mariel Gere, Willa Cather recalled the group's meetings as "the usual …
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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 biographical material could be shared with …
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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 … by our organization's founders. As a result, the National Willa Cather Center houses the earliest Cather collections …
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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 … winter. Two of the letters were written from Beecher to Willa Cather’s partner Edith Lewis, following the memorial …
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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: Thornton Oakley

… Howard Pyle; she had sent him an inscribed copy of The Troll Garden  in 1906, referencing the Cather children's love of …
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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 … was the personal botany book of Frances Smith Cather, Willa Cather's "Aunt Franc," and shows heavy use. Inscribed …
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Annotations from the Archive: Our Organizational History

… of 1957, Mildred Bennett and the founding members of the Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial felt that their work in Red Cloud … the word around that we were trying to preserve and restore Willa Cather’s country and artifacts.” The organizations …
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