CATHER, Willa Siebert. An unusual small archive of manuscripts, featuring letters from several correspondents including Isabelle McClung, all dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s.
CATHER, Willa Siebert. An unusual small archive of manuscripts, featuring letters from several correspondents including Isabelle McClung, all dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Contents: Together 64 Pages. -- CATHER. Typescript with handwritten additions, of an apparent publisher's blurb describing One of Ours (New York, 1921). 1 page, 4to, with 10 words added by Cather and several passages underlined in pencil. "More and more we come to recognize in Miss Cather our greatest living woman novelist" -- HAMBOURG, Isabelle (neé McClung). Three autograph letters signed to Cather (one addressed to "My darling Molly"), from London and France, 4 July, 17 September and 24 November 1933. Together 12 full pages, 4to, with three postmarked envelopes. VERY FEW LETTERS FROM MCCLUNG SURVIVE. Lengthy, affectionate letters, full of literary chat, travel news and reports on mutual acquaintances. Cather and McClung "had a long, intimate and emotional friendship" (Hermione Lee, Willa Cather , p.58). -- CATHER, Roscoe (Willa's brother). Two Autograph letters and three Typed letters signed ("Ross") to Willa, Long Beach, July to August 1938, on executor's stationary, most with envelopes. Mainly concerning financial matters and the settlement of the estate of C.D. Cather (a brother). One ALS torn laterally into strips as if to suppress contents -- UNIDENTIFIED. Penciled additions to a series of typed queries regarding early life and farming in Nebraska, 2pp., 4to. -- Draft, in an unidentified hand, praising Cather's A Troll Garden (1905). 1p., 4to. "These stories are masterpieces...No single story can be spared " -- KNOPF, Alfred. Telegram to Cather, 23 August 1940. 1 page, oblong. Expressing delight at her "wonderful news." -- MELLEN, Mary Virginia. ALS to Cather ("Dearest Aunt Willie") N.Y., 15 August [1940]. 6pp., 8vo., friendly contents. -- Two postcards to Cather, one from the Menhuin family, one from Ida Cahn, both August 1933. -- Photograph, 5.5 x 7.5 in., depicts a carved Jesus on donkey, verso with inscription by Isabelle McClung.
CATHER, Willa Siebert. An unusual small archive of manuscripts, featuring letters from several correspondents including Isabelle McClung, all dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s.
CATHER, Willa Siebert. An unusual small archive of manuscripts, featuring letters from several correspondents including Isabelle McClung, all dating from the late 1930s and early 1940s. Contents: Together 64 Pages. -- CATHER. Typescript with handwritten additions, of an apparent publisher's blurb describing One of Ours (New York, 1921). 1 page, 4to, with 10 words added by Cather and several passages underlined in pencil. "More and more we come to recognize in Miss Cather our greatest living woman novelist" -- HAMBOURG, Isabelle (neé McClung). Three autograph letters signed to Cather (one addressed to "My darling Molly"), from London and France, 4 July, 17 September and 24 November 1933. Together 12 full pages, 4to, with three postmarked envelopes. VERY FEW LETTERS FROM MCCLUNG SURVIVE. Lengthy, affectionate letters, full of literary chat, travel news and reports on mutual acquaintances. Cather and McClung "had a long, intimate and emotional friendship" (Hermione Lee, Willa Cather , p.58). -- CATHER, Roscoe (Willa's brother). Two Autograph letters and three Typed letters signed ("Ross") to Willa, Long Beach, July to August 1938, on executor's stationary, most with envelopes. Mainly concerning financial matters and the settlement of the estate of C.D. Cather (a brother). One ALS torn laterally into strips as if to suppress contents -- UNIDENTIFIED. Penciled additions to a series of typed queries regarding early life and farming in Nebraska, 2pp., 4to. -- Draft, in an unidentified hand, praising Cather's A Troll Garden (1905). 1p., 4to. "These stories are masterpieces...No single story can be spared " -- KNOPF, Alfred. Telegram to Cather, 23 August 1940. 1 page, oblong. Expressing delight at her "wonderful news." -- MELLEN, Mary Virginia. ALS to Cather ("Dearest Aunt Willie") N.Y., 15 August [1940]. 6pp., 8vo., friendly contents. -- Two postcards to Cather, one from the Menhuin family, one from Ida Cahn, both August 1933. -- Photograph, 5.5 x 7.5 in., depicts a carved Jesus on donkey, verso with inscription by Isabelle McClung.
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