Cather Documents at Libraries

Note: Cather strongly stipulated in her will that her letters were not to be quoted; thus the references below are for the most part listings of locations and quantities of documents. This listing is very incomplete -- only what I gathered through a brief tour of the web.

WCPM CATHER ARCHIVES

  • Over 200 personal letters of Willa Cather

  • Approximately 1900 images (subjects: Willa Cather, Cather family friends, friends of Willa Cather, Red Cloud and Webster County)

  • A vertical file with approximately 425 articles, numerous dissertations and theses, scrapbooks (five containing contemporary articles and reviews)

  • Newspapers on microfilm (RED CLOUD NEWSPAPERS: Commercial Advertiser/May, 1908 - October, 1968; Golden Belt/1893-1896; The National/1892-1908; Red Cloud Chief/November, 1878-November, 1923. OTHER NEWSPAPERS: Pittsburgh Leader/December, 1896-December, 1900; Pittsburgh Gazette/October, 1901-January, 1904)

  • Miscellaneous items: Willa Cather's autograph book, author's copy of April Twilights with reviews, several early manuscripts for poems, genealogy of the Cather Family, Cather Family Collection (books and uncataloged miscellaneous items), 93 short stories and poems by Willa Cather, and McClure Magazines/1896-1912.
    BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY AT YALE:

  • Correspondence with Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant
  • Correspondence with Henry Seidel Canby
  • The Benet Family correspondence

    HARRY RANSOM HUMANITIES RESEARCH CENTER AT UT-AUSTIN:


  • Correspondence with Alfred A. Knopf