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To: Mrs. Don-o
She had explicitly forbidden the publication of, or even direct quotation from, her correspondence.

Should have destroyed her correspondence instead of leaving it for posterity.

I've read most of Willa Cather's novels, after refusing to read "My Antonia" in high school. Good stuff.

43 posted on 04/04/2013 2:52:26 PM PDT by Tax-chick (That sound? It's either the love call of the sand-squid, or my son playing the guitar.)
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To: Tax-chick

I’m told she burned boxes of private papers, so I really don’t understand what the deal is with the literary executors. Maybe they traced down the people she wrote to, and got the letters from them???? Claiming they had rights to them, because they were written by Cather? I don’t know.

I liked The Song of the Lark. I like the simple language, and the fact that (somehow) it can have srong emotions and at the same time be bracingly unsentimental. Takes a great writer to do that.


45 posted on 04/04/2013 3:19:19 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra)
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