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CHAPTER FOUR.

PART TWO.

PART THREE

1923

A Lost LADY-Published serially in Century, 23-April, MAY JUNE

In contrib column mentions that she dedicated her first
book to SOJ-

OPBaxi

"Miss Cathor belongs to no xxxxschool and regularly d is-
appoints those who expect that any new book

will belike any other.

Beautiful picture of W-her clear features.happy look.

2.

But there was none of this genuineness and spontaneous pleasure in my
letters to Mrs Fields.They were written from a sense of duty-just because
she enjoyed opening the morning mail.So if you will just put them in the
furnace I shall be greatly obliged to you.

Always faithfully yours,
Willa Cather.

PS It has just occurred to me that the most satisfactory arrangement
would be to ask you to send the letters in question to meat the
Grosvenor Hotel 35 Fifth Ave New York, where I shall be stopping for a
week or ten days. I will glance at them, and if there are any that seem
to be more than formal evasion, I will return them to you for your
collection

IG

From Howe. Nov 15 1931.

Dear Miss C:

The postscript to your letter of Armistice Day gives me
a comforting truce, and I am forwarding your packet of letters for
destruction at your own hands if that must be. But I cannot help
hoping you will relent, at least in some measure. After all, did not the
constraint which you felt in writing Mrs Fields in that earlier time
bear its part in the development of what you were still to become?
I am sure you will not resent this suggestion from one with a fellow
feeling for biographers, even of a distant future day.

Believe me, very sincerely yours,

MADW H.

Hand written thanks for return of letters. by WCAfter return from
her trip will look over them

No further news?

From Steffens Autobiography:

"The muckrakers dominated a period of this history of the U.S. You were the first of the muckrakers." This was written to Steffens by a historian. He wasn't the original muckraker-prophets of Old Test ahead of him.-so were the writer editors and reporters-including himself of the nineties, who were finding fault with "things as they are" in the pre-muckraking period. Dindt intended to be one. Did not know I was one until Pre-R picket the name out of Pilgrim Progress and pinned it on me. Those were innocent days. We were all innocent folk

Towards end of his newspaperservice John S Phillips ass'ed o' McClures mag called on him city room Commercial Advertiser. Took him out to lunch John Finley then managing ed of M. He was to do a academic workand SS P and other editors wante a trained young newspaper maneditor to manage the d office and carry on policy of the Magazine. Art editor M August F Ja caccaci had beenwatching Com Ad

What will you do with it.

Put news into it. Some news stories so long that reade readers lost sight of them.

Jaccaci edited the men-a fellow worker int friend. Art his dept but he also made writing art...

S was not an organizer or an executive-others had to do the work. Tarbell and Baker were writers, assigned to jobs. The Hi-Tarbell "the History of Standard Oil" Baker semi-scientific articles on Germany, SS directing their work. Authors left to S but mostly did their work out of the office. SS did the searching for new authors. Korn Viola Roseborough the Reader.

p 361 That was Sam McClure, the wild editor of M. Blond, smiling enthuisastic, unreliable he was the receiver of the ideas of his day, he was a flower that did not sit and wait for the bees to come and take his honey and leave their seeds. He flew forth to find and robx the bees. He was rarely in the office. "I can't sit still he shouted, That's your job, I don't see how you do it." One reason he could not stay in the office is that we checked him. That too was my job. the job of all of us to hold down SS. But his nerves drove him too; his curiosity his love of being in this need to wonder and be wondered about. He followed the news, especially big personal news. If a new author appeared on the horizon--(explorer, statesman) SS went forth to meet him and "get him into McClure's. TO Africa, Europe, all over US to see

things and men to listen and take. People would turn up who had given up a job or business to whom he promised jobs. "Here was always some act of his enthusiasm for us to counteract. Always so when he came back from a trip-wide come straight from ship to office, bagfull of clippings papers books letters tell them all about it." Prought back Kiplings' Kim. Had to fight fire out of seven world-shaking schemes. We were failures he was the creator. I used at first to

CATHER PORTRAIT TO BE UNVEILED

(Bee - Dec. 7, 1923)

Willa Cather's portrait, done by Leon Bakst in Paris last summer, will be unveiled on Sunday, December 30, at 3:30 P.M. at the library. The public is invited to attend.

Miss Cather will not be here, having been detained in New York. She will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Cather, at Red Cloud, later in the season. The family will be represented at the unveiling by Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Auld of Red Cloud, and their daughter, Mary Virginia, niece of Miss Cather, who will unveil the portrait.

The portrait is being given to the library by Omaha women under chairmanship of Mrs. Margaret Hynes. She will introduce Mrs. Luther Drake, president of the Omaha Society of Fine Arts, who will make the presentation speech. C. N. Dietz, president of the library board, will accept.

The portrait committee included Mrs. Hynes as chairman, and Mesdames A. L. Reed, Luther Drake, Victor Caldwell, A. B. Currie, Myron Learned, Sam Burns, John H. Caldwell, C. C. George, Frank Judson and Miss Edith Tobitt.

WILLA CATHER'S PORTRAIT PAINTER GOOD COSTUME DESIGNER, SAYS PACH

(Bee - January 11, 1924)

Leon Bakst, painter of the portrait of Will Cather, Nebraska's foremost author, which was unveiled at the Omaha public library on December 30, is not a painter, declared Walter Pach, artist, who came to Omaha to lecture at the museum of fine arts at the public library.

Pach, an art critic, painter and lecturer, is known as an authority. He has recently been appointed a lecturer on painting at the University of New York and has been associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art for many years.

"Bakst won popularity as a designed of costumes during the craze for Russian dancers," Pach continued. "He has been working since then on the strength of that reputation. He has never been a portrait painter and as far as I can see never will be.

"The painting of Willa Cather is awful," he exclaimed, "In the French sense of art, that painting doesn't exist. There is nothing in the picture to tell of such a remarkable woman as Willa Cather. I am a great admirer of her work, but when looking at the picture here I feel that I do not know Miss Cather one bit more. I can't understand why she allowed this man to do her portrait.

"Bakst should keep on with his Russian designs that were helped to the front by the dancers and the musicians."

The Cather portrait was presented to the public library by women of Omaha. Miss Cather sat for the portrait in Bakst's studio in Paris during her recent trips abroad.

There are no Bakst paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, said Pach. Only a few pen sketches are there with a collection donated by a wealthy man of New York City.

Interest in art in Omaha would grow to large proportions if the permanent exhibition in the library included some better

Willa Cather's Portrait Painter good Costume Designer, says Pach

(Bee - January 11, 1924)

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works of art, Pach thinks.

"For instance, few persons interested in art know that Samuel Morse, inventor of the telegraph, and Robert Fulton, inventor of the steamboat, were artists of note," he said. If a thorough study were made of art here a greater interest would be developed. They are just beginning to lay a foundation by these exhibitions of originals."

Pach is scheduled to give four lectures during exhibits to be held during January. He will talk on ancient and modern art. He is expected to lecture again in Omaha the latter part of January.

Pach, when told of the recent report that a painting, "Madonna of the Rose," owned by Dr. J. Stuart Livingston of Plattsmouth was believed to be an original by Raphael, doubted any such probability. Any one of the hundreds of pupils under such a great painter might have copied the painting in his work as a pupil, according to Pach.

PICTURE OF WILLA CATHER UNVEILED, PUBLIC LIBRARY

"To let young people know that recognition is given to art as to material enterprises."

(World Herald - December 31, 1928)

"To let young people know that recognition is given to art as well as to more material enterprises," was set forth as the purpose of presenting the portrait of Willa Cather, Nebraska authoress, to the public library. The picture was unveiled later yesterday afternoon by Miss Virginia Auhl of Red Cloud, a niece of Miss Cather. About 150 persons were present.

The picture, a painting by L. Bakst, is hung in the gallery on the third floor of the library next to the portrait of John G. Neihardt, poet laureate of Nebraska. It was presented to the library by the Omaha Society of Fine Arts.

In the presentation address by Mrs. Luther Drake, president of the society, Miss Cather was named as "a great artist".

"She represents inherent books, the real spirit of this part of the country," Mrs. Drake said. "She is a great artist, which is the reason we honor her."

Following C. N. Dietz, member of the library board, who made the acceptance speech, Duncan G. Vinsonhaler, active in promoting the idea of Miss Cather's portrait, and said to be the impelling force behind having it painted, said:

"We want to show our appreciation at home of those who are distinguished abroad. This honor to Miss Cather will set the young people know there is something to strive for--it will be an inspiration to literary workers." Mr. Vinsonhaler said that prints, made by Louis Bostwick, would be sent to schools in the state.

Hochstein, whom I had known so little, that walked into my study and stood beside my desk. I had not known him well, but neither would Claude Wheeler know him very well; the farmer boy hadn't the background the sophistication to get very far with a man like Hochstein. But there was a common ground on which they could know and respect each other, --the ground on which Hochstein had met and admired his fellow soldiers at Camp Upton. And Claude would sense the other side of David and respect it. Lately several of them, non-commissioned officers, have taken a good deal of trouble to look me up and arrange an interview, merely to ask me whether Hochstein 'amounted to much' as a violinist. In each case these were men who knew nothing and cared nothing about music, and they apparently knew no musicians to consult. But they seemed to need this fact to complete their memory of him, to pull their mental picture of him together, though it was merely as a soldier that they had admired him.