CATHER, WILLA] POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems ... East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. One of 100 copies on Japan vellum, signed by Hubbard. An exceptional Willa Cather association copy, inscribed "Edith Lewis/Christmas 1907/W.S.C." in brown-black ink, in Cather's neat and distinctive hand. Bound at The Roycroft Shop in three-quarters hand-stained morocco, matching marbled sides, spine gilt, in the original felt-lined box. [xvi] pp., 58 pp. A fine copy. Professor Melissa Homestead, who is currently writing a book on the lifelong relationship between Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, has noted of this copy "In 1907, Cather and Lewis had not yet moved into their first shared apartment-that didn't come until just before Christmas in 1908. However, Cather had moved into the same building on Washington Square where Lewis had been living since she first moved to New York in 1903. I have also found evidence that they began exchanging books as Christmas gifts very soon after meeting one another and well before Cather moved to New York. In 1904, for example, Edith Lewis presented a copy of Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Cather, in 1905, Cather presented Lewis with Israel Zangwill's The Children of the Ghetto. My favorite Christmas gift in the series ... is Cather's gift of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Mate of the Daylight to Lewis in 1908-that's the gift that does correspond precisely with the beginning of their shared apartment living. Cather's inscription in that volume takes precisely the same form as her inscription in the Poe volume the year before." Letters between the two are unobtainable. Lewis, who lived with Cather for thirty-nine years and became her literary executor, seems to have destroyed their correspondence (unless this was done by Cather herself), and only one letter between the two appears to have survived, so tangible connections between the two are few and far between. Only two books presented by Cather to Lewis have appeared at auction in the past thirty years, and those are of her own works, and are significantly later. This was a carefully chosen gift, as Cather had considerable fondness for Poe, referencing him as early as her 1897 graduation speech, and there are other resonances with his writing throughout her work. We are grateful to Professor Melissa J. Homestead for permission to quote the communication above, which draws on her essay "Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality." Willa Cather and the Ninteenth Century. Cather Studies 10. Eds. Richard Millington and Anne Kaufman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming. C
CATHER, WILLA] POE, EDGAR ALLAN. Poems ... East Aurora: Roycroft Press, 1901. One of 100 copies on Japan vellum, signed by Hubbard. An exceptional Willa Cather association copy, inscribed "Edith Lewis/Christmas 1907/W.S.C." in brown-black ink, in Cather's neat and distinctive hand. Bound at The Roycroft Shop in three-quarters hand-stained morocco, matching marbled sides, spine gilt, in the original felt-lined box. [xvi] pp., 58 pp. A fine copy. Professor Melissa Homestead, who is currently writing a book on the lifelong relationship between Willa Cather and Edith Lewis, has noted of this copy "In 1907, Cather and Lewis had not yet moved into their first shared apartment-that didn't come until just before Christmas in 1908. However, Cather had moved into the same building on Washington Square where Lewis had been living since she first moved to New York in 1903. I have also found evidence that they began exchanging books as Christmas gifts very soon after meeting one another and well before Cather moved to New York. In 1904, for example, Edith Lewis presented a copy of Henry James' The Golden Bowl to Cather, in 1905, Cather presented Lewis with Israel Zangwill's The Children of the Ghetto. My favorite Christmas gift in the series ... is Cather's gift of Sarah Orne Jewett's The Mate of the Daylight to Lewis in 1908-that's the gift that does correspond precisely with the beginning of their shared apartment living. Cather's inscription in that volume takes precisely the same form as her inscription in the Poe volume the year before." Letters between the two are unobtainable. Lewis, who lived with Cather for thirty-nine years and became her literary executor, seems to have destroyed their correspondence (unless this was done by Cather herself), and only one letter between the two appears to have survived, so tangible connections between the two are few and far between. Only two books presented by Cather to Lewis have appeared at auction in the past thirty years, and those are of her own works, and are significantly later. This was a carefully chosen gift, as Cather had considerable fondness for Poe, referencing him as early as her 1897 graduation speech, and there are other resonances with his writing throughout her work. We are grateful to Professor Melissa J. Homestead for permission to quote the communication above, which draws on her essay "Willa Cather, Sarah Orne Jewett, and the Historiography of Lesbian Sexuality." Willa Cather and the Ninteenth Century. Cather Studies 10. Eds. Richard Millington and Anne Kaufman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, forthcoming. C
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