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Annotated in pencil ‘91 721 Hillcrest Ave. Orlando, Fla. Annotated in pencil replied / 1-25-43 Dear Mr. Cunningham Yours of Dec.10 1942 is received My family formerly lived in Lincoln, Nebr. I took my Master’s degree there in 1891 - I remember Willa Cather, a girl of medium height, plump, wearing a gray flannel suit and hat which gave her a rather masculine or perhaps boyish appearance, but I had no personal contact with her. My brother, Raymond A. Jones was in her Latin class. In the spring of 1933 I came to Chicago as a World’s Fair correspondent for the Lincoln State Journal Note: last 3 words underlined. In the fall and winter underlined of that year I wrote for that paper some articles about the plays then current in the city. One evening striken when I went downtown to see A Walker Whiteside performance (Shakespearean , I think). When I asked the manager of the underlined company for my usual pass, he indignantly refused me, said Willa Cather had criticized their performance.severely in Lincoln Nebr in the Lincoln State Journal and he would not give a pass to anyone connected with that paper. If you can get access underlined to the files of the State Journal of that year. I think you will find specimens of her earlier work. Am sorry I have no copies of the Hesperian.

Very truly yours, Florence N. Jones