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Annotation in pencil Courier IMAGE FLORA BULLOCK 1100 NORTH 37TH STREET LINCOLN, NEBRASKA September 28, 1943
Typewritten Dear Mr. Hitz:
I fear that you may think I have absconded with the money _and_ the bibliography—which would be both robbery and intellectual catastrophe overwritten! But if you will continue your patience for a very short time, you shall have something to look at. I thought that I had covered the ground completely, but in glancing through some Couriers of later date than "The Passing Show" and some earlier ones I found interesting references to the Cather stories and poems, reprints and editorials praising her work, etc. So I decided to extend the Appendix a little. Yesterday I was about quitting when I found items showing when Miss Cather left Nebraska "to make her fortune" in the east. A few weeks later came a review of a story in the Home Weekly of Pittsburg; this may have been her first story in that paper. Do you have any copies of it? Two of my best friends here had letters from Miss Cather asking for some of their stories to reprint.
I am entirely satisfied with your payment for the material I sent last. Only, I do want to read the Shakespeare articles sometime when I have more leisure and less to do with my eyes. I noticed some astounding—to me—statements in the articles and felt that I'doverstrike “8” lik e to examine them a little.
Sept. 30
"The best laid plans" etc. I came to the Capitol this morning with the intention of working hard. The lady in the office called me to do some special music arranging for their annual program Saturday, and so I've postponed the Cather work for a day.
The newspaper assistant here says she can have photostats made. After I have really tried to get a file of _Couriers_, there is a possibility that you could have photostats of selected numbers—the early stories, for instance. More of this later.
Very truly yours, Flora Bullock