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Annotated ‘97 Brookings, South Dakota January 6, 1943 Mr. Everett V. Cunningham, Mountain Bookshop Brush Ridge Road, Fleischmanns, N.Y. Dear Mr. Cunningham: Upon my return from a vacation trip; I found your letter under date December 15, awaiting me In this letter you made inquiry as to whether I had any certain designated issues of The underlined Hesperian underlined containing some of Miss Willa Cather’s early contributions. I regret to say that I do not have any of these numbers. I have a few late 1895 issues and quite a number of those 1896 and of 1897. I do underlined have a copy of the Sombrero underlined, the Junior Annual put out in 1894 by the class of 1895, of which Miss Cather was a member. Miss Cather was one of the editors of this Annual. This particular Annual featured the Quarter Centennial Anniversary Program of the University of Nebraska. James A. Canfield, father of Dorothy Canfield was Chancellor at that time. On pages 224-231 of this publication there appears a first prize story. “The Fear That Walks By Noonday” all underlined written by Willa Cather and Dorothy Canfield, evidently a joint product of these two young writers. No doubt your client has used this publication. I would not care to part with this book. I prize it very, very, highly. I knew many of its contributors. I first went to the University of Nebraska as a law student in 1892 but switched over to the Liberal Arts College and took several years