Hundreds of Willa Cather’s letters and other materials were donated to the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.  The donated collection, previously unknown, includes more than 350 letters and a number of postcards, photographs and books. 

This donation triples the University Archives’ of Cather’s letters.  And although instructions in Willa Cather’s will do not allow the publication of any of her personal correspondence, scholars are free to visit the UNL libraries and view the materials. 

Willa Cather (1873-1947)–Nebraska raised and an alumnus of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln– was an award-winning author.  She is most remembered for her books My Antonia and Death Comes for the Arch Bishop.  One of Ours, a World War I story based on her cousin G. P. Cather, won the Pulitzer Prize.

To learn more about the new addition to UNL’s collection of Willa Cather materials, please visit the UNL Libraries Archives and Special Collections, The Willa Cather Archive, and read the article Family donates hundreds of Willa Cather letters to UNL Libraries.  To learn more about Willa Cather,