Part 4: Correspondence

Microfilm Reel #MS00014
(December 1945-September 1947)
(Boxes 12-13, Folders 306-339)

Numbers in brackets refer to the frame on which the letter starts. The Correspondence was selectively indexed, based on our statement of editorial principles.

BOX 12
BOX 12, FOLDER 306
December 5, 1945 [6]
Mari Sandoz to Fishing & Hunting Club, WJZ, New York City
Regarding fishing, salting fish

December 7, 1945 [8-9]
Louise Snapp (Lincoln Bookstore) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding copies of Old Jules in demand; airbase in Lincoln is closing; Ruth Pike

December 9, 1945 [13]
Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet
Regarding mayors convention in New York City (Paul Martis' brother visited) "Harvey"

December 12, 1945 [14-15]
Frontier Press Company to Mari Sandoz
Regarding American Indian information, sources

December 13, 1945 [16-17]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Hays (Hank)
Regarding visit of the Martis to New York City; art shows; Ben Abramson; Leonard Thiessen plays; Minneapolis, MN

December 13, 1945 [18]
Mari Sandoz to Jim Van Liew
Regarding Terence Duren; folk song radio program; news of their common friends from Nebraska

December 15, 1945 [19-20]
Eleanor Hinman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Hinman's job at the Army & Navy Hospital in Hot Springs, Arkansas; combat and service men; New York School of Social Work

December 16, 1945 [23]
Lenore (Fitzell) Taylor to Mari Sandoz
Regarding sailing on a service ship; the Taylor's Mexico adventures

December 17, 1945 [24-25]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding release from the service, painting (Art) abstracts; Weldon Kees; High Plains Colorado life

December 18, 1945 [27]
Mari Sandoz to Terence Duren
Regarding visit with McPharlin; art, Dorothy Thomas

December 19, 1945 [29-30]
Mari Sandoz to "Doc" Watson Bidwell
Regarding a reply to his letter; art & artists; non object art; Fay Bainter and "The Next Half Hour"

December 22, 1945 [31-34]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his art; he explains his painting thoughts

BOX 12, FOLDER 307
No Date [48-51]
"Doc" Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Slim Dugger, a service man in the army with Bidwell; life in the staging area; V.J. day

No Date [52]
Ed Fitzgerald to Mari Sandoz
Regarding wrestling matches in New York City

No Date [77-78]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Fitzgerald
Regarding wrestling matches

BOX 12, FOLDER 308
No Date [84]
Lucille & Allan Sloan to Mari Sandoz
Regarding the soldier vote; Green-Lucas-Worley bill

No Date [85-88]
Irma Suchy to Mari Sandoz
Regarding army life among women; the WACS

BOX 12, FOLDER 309
January 12, 1946 [99]
Mari Sandoz to Dorothy & Dick (WOR Radio)
Regarding recipe for creamed spinach and "green thumb"

January 13, 1946 [101]
Mari Sandoz to Ralph Coniston
Regarding confidential source; health issues

January 15, 1946 [106]
Western Reserve University (Cleveland, OH) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Eleanor Hinman's application for admission

January 17, 1946 [108-109]
Mari Sandoz to Hollace Roberts (Western Reserve University)
Regarding Mari's letter of recommendation for Eleanor Hinman

January 20, 1946 [112-114]
Eleanor Hinman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding her application to New York School of Social Work; going to school on G.I. bill; leaving the army

BOX 12, FOLDER 310
January 25, 1946 [127]
Mari Sandoz to John P. Lewis
Regarding anti-semitism in the Village, New York City

January 26, 1946 [130-131]
Ed McLean to Mari Sandoz
Regarding American Indian issues; religion, work, etc.; children's books

January 27, 1946 [132]
Mari Sandoz to Walter Wightman
Regarding Old Jules; Spade Ranch; Sandhills life

January 28, 1946 [133-135]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding art; painting

January 28, 1946 [137]
Mari Sandoz to Ed McLean
Regarding possible markets for children's books

January 31, 1946 [142]
Senator J. Fred Toman (Montana) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Percy Sandoz photograph

No Date [143]
Van Vleet Ranch to Mari Sandoz
Regarding release of movie short "Arabians in the Rockies"

BOX 12, FOLDER 311
February 5, 1946 [145]
Mari Sandoz to "Doc" Bidwell
Regarding the G.I. bill; veteran situation

February 13, 1946 [160]
Mari Sandoz to Dorothy & Dick (WOR Radio)
Regarding folk sayings about buying horses, steaks & cattle business

February 17, 1946 [163-166]
Eleanor Hinman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding her application to New York School for Social Work; her work at the Army hospital

February 18, 1946 [167-168]
Mari Sandoz to Van Vleets
Regarding a concern of a summer visit to the Ranch; "Arabians in the Rockies" movie

February 19, 1946 [170]
Mari Sandoz to Senator J. Fred Toman (Montana)
Regarding Knox Co. region; Martindales of the Niobrara region

February 20, 1946 [171-172]
E. Peret to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse queries

February 20, 1946 [173]
Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Hinman
Regarding her letter of the 17th; civilian life; a trip to Mexico; books out of print; unemployment; anti-semitism

February 25, 1946 [178-179]
Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Lincoln social scene; funerals; art scene in Lincoln

February 26, 1946 [180-181]
Mari Sandoz to E. Peret
Regarding Crazy Horse; Lakota; Pine Ridge; M.I. McCreight

BOX 12, FOLDER 312
March 2, 1946 [192]
Ralph Collins (Indiana University Writer's Conference) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding her to join the staff of the Conference; "run" a fiction workshop

March 9, 1946 [198]
Ralph Collins to Mari Sandoz
Regarding more information on the conference; other authors attending; she accepts

March 9, 1946 [199-206]
Eleanor Hinman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Hinman's situation; her work with returned P.O.W.'s survivors of Bataan, Corregidor; interesting behaviors among these men; Eva Hahn, a Viennese survivor of Hitler's prisons works with these men

March 11, 1946 [209]
Society for the Prevention of World War II to Mari Sandoz
Regarding plans for meeting

March 14, 1946 [209-210]
Mari Sandoz to Eleanor Hinman
Regarding her reply to Hinmans letter of March 9th; Veteran's situations, etc.

March 24, 1946 [218]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding Veteran's situation; Sandoz's life in New York City

March 28, 1946 [232-234]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's visit and his painting; radio interview; parties in Omaha

March 31, 1946 [236]
Louise Pound to Mari Sandoz
Regarding folklore; articles; old Nebraska folk customs

BOX 12, FOLDER 314
April 4, 1946 [247]
Mari Sandoz to Ralph Collins
Regarding the writers responsibility to material'

April 4, 1946 [249]
Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound
Reply to her letter of March 31, 1946; folk customs

April 5, 1946 [252]
Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound
Regarding how the saying "corny" came about

April 12, 1946 [262-263]
Mari Sandoz to Editorial Offices of The New Republic
Regarding F.D.R.; a Sandoz governess

BOX 12, FOLDER 315
April 15, 1946 [266]
Mari Sandoz to Mirage Flats Irrigation Project
Regarding Senator Morris; water for the region of Mirage Flats

April 19, 1946 [270]
Nat Tolman (Soil Conservation Service) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Mirage Flats project

April 22, 1946 [272]
Mari Sandoz to the Shays
Regarding their hopes for a grant from Guggenheim; American Indian; Helen Blish & Bad Heart Bull manuscript; fellowship application

April 25, 1946 [277-278]
Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Eleanor Hinman; Mamie Meredith; Dr. Wimberly

April 29, 1946 [279]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes
Regarding trying to finish The Tom Walker

BOX 12, FOLDER 316
May 12, 1946 [290-291]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his art show; anti-war propaganda; "losing" the peace

May 14, 1946 [293]
Elaine Lewis (New York Folklore Society) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding folk cures

May 17, 1946 [297-298]
Mari Sandoz to Elaine Lewis
Regarding folk cures; Indian folk cures (Cherokee); treating fractures

May 20, 1946 [300]
Mari Sandoz to Dr. Ralph Crossman
Regarding Post War Society; newspapers & journalism

May 21, 1946 [303]
Robert Young (Chesapeake & Ohio Railway) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding railroad travel

May 28, 1946 [312]
Ed MacLean to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his children's books; Frank Shively; Colorado visitors

May 29, 1946 [313]
Dr. Ralph Crossman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Colorado Editor; journalism

May 30, 1946 [314-315]
Senator J. Fred Toman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse; site of the Reynolds fight; Custer rumors; Powder River queries

BOX 12, FOLDER 317
June 8, 1946 [328]
Mari Sandoz to Ed MacLean
Regarding children's books; Shively; her work on The Tom Walker

June 16, 1946 [324-325]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his coming art shows

June 16, 1946 [326-331]
Eleanor Hinmant to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Hinman back in Lincoln; Hinman's V.A. job; the Ferrills; Denver; working with Lincoln youth

June 19, 1946 [338-339]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding art and painting

June 20, 1946 [340-341]
Jesse Tvrs to Mari Sandoz
Regarding military life in post-war; Kobe, Japan; condition of the city & people

June 22, 1946 [344-345]
Mari Sandoz to "Doc" Watson Bidwell
Regarding art, painting; political changes in Nebraska; Atomic Control Committee

June 30, 1946 [350-355]
Sandoz writes six letters to State Representators & Senators asking that they support O.P.A. in the Trans-Missouri region; politics.  These letters are addressed to
1) Howard Buffett
2) Hugh R. Butler
3) Carl T. Curtis
4) A.L. Miller
5) Karl Stefan
6) Kenneth S. Wherry

BOX 12, FOLDER 318
July 2, 1946 [358]
Carl T. Curtis to Mari Sandoz
Reply to her letter; O.P.A. situation

July 2, 1946 [360]
A.L. Miller to Mari Sandoz
Reply to her letter; O.P.A. extension; political leadership in Congress

July 2, 1946 [361]
Karl Stefan to Mari Sandoz
Reply to her letter

July 3, 1946 [363]
W.A. Stolley to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Grand Island settlement of 1857

July 6, 1946 [367]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks (Atlantic)
Regarding The Tom Walker is sent to the publisher

July 7, 1946 [369]
Senator J. Fred Toman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Mr. C.P. Berry and his life in Knox County; Indian troubles

July 8, 1946 [371]
Mari Sandoz to "Doc" Watson Bidwell
Regarding hardships of an artist; her publishing problems with Old Jules

July 9, 1946 [372]
Kenneth Wherry to Mari Sandoz
Reply to Sandoz letter

July 11, 1946 [374-375]
Elizabeth Brennan to Mari Sandoz
Regarding writing of fiction and poetry; writing of the pioneer days; asks about entering contests

Mari Sandoz to Warren Espy Bower (Department of English, New York University)
Regarding veterans as students; student housing

July 31, 1946 [393]
Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth Brennan
Regarding publishing; prizes; poetry of the pioneer times

BOX 12, FOLDER 320
August 4, 1946 [397]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding Atlantic accepts The Tom Walker

August 5, 1946 [401]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding publishing contracts; The Tom Walker; her start on a horse story; Arabians

August 6, 1946 [402-403]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding *Caroline Bancroft is injured; painting; returning to school.  *Newspaper clipping enclosed.

August 6, 1946 [405]
Mari Sandoz to Arthur Wang (Thomas Y. Crowell Company)
Regarding The Devil is a Lonely Man; Chauncey Thomas; the "pleasure-hero" tales

August 12, 1946 [407]
Lenore & Caroline (J. Alvin Fitzell) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding details of Caroline Bancroft's injuries

August 14, 1946 [409]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding The Tom Walker contracts with publisher

August 15, 1946 [411]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks (Atlantic)
Regarding revisions with The Tom Walker; libel cases

August 23, 1946 [413]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Weeks (Atlantic)
Regarding revision with The Tom Walker; previous publishing problems.  This letter was "never sent."

August 27, 1946 [418-419]
George M. Joyce to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his paintings of famous Indian leaders

August 30, 1946 [424]
Mari Sandoz to George M. Joyce
Regarding a photograph of Crazy Horse; the books Crazy Horse; Black Elk Speaks; Wooden Leg; American

August 30, 1946 [425]
Mari Sandoz to Elizabeth McKee (Atlantic Press)
Regarding rejection of The Tom Walker.  This letter never mailed.

August 30, 1946 [426]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding The Tom Walker

BOX 13
BOX 13, FOLDER 321
September 2, 1946 [428]
Harrison B. French to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's writing, specifically Old Jules, Slogum House and Crazy Horse, which he calls "something of a writer's Bible"

September 6, 1946 [429]
C.A. Kroening to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Old Jules; a visit to the West

September 11, 1946 [432]
Mari Sandoz to C.A. Kroening
Regarding Walter Reed, Sandhills, Sioux country and the trip to the West

September 16, 1946 [438]
Mari Sandoz to Marlin Firearms
Regarding Marlin rifles and their reputation

September 19, 1946 [443]
Audrey Wood to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Old Jules movie rights; possibilities of making a film

October 18, 1946 [463-464]
Marguerite Johanson to Mari Sandoz
Regarding writing; short stories

BOX 13, FOLDER 322
November 3, 1946 [469-472]
Mari Sandoz to Marguerite Johansen
Regarding writing-fiction and narrative; "cleverness"; unity; mentions Capital City, Crazy Horse

November 9, 1946 [477]
Mari Sandoz to The Stegers
Regarding Helen Hayes; Fred Daniels; Christian Scientists; electric shock therapy

November 9, 1946 [478-479]
Mari Sandoz to W.A. Stolley
Regarding The West; life in New York City

November 10, 1946 [480]
Ed McLean to Mari Sandoz
Regarding children's literature; Indians; publishing rejections

November 10, 1946 [482-483]
Mari Sandoz to Senator J. Fred Toman
Regarding Connor-Walker expedition of 1865; the Sandhills; the Reynolds fight; river names; maps; Powder river sites; Custer-fight survivors

November 15, 1946 [494-495]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes
Regarding Fred Daniels; art shows; Helen Tyler; Leonard Theissen; Tyler Buchenau

November 17, 1946 [498-500]
Orin Stepanek to Mari Sandoz
Regarding University of Nebraska; Gustavson; Capital City; local elections

November 25, 1946 [504]
Austin Corcoran (?) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Old Jules; Sandhills families

November 30, 1946 [508]
Gustav Bernau to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Prague (Czechoslavakia) publishers interested in Old Jules in translation

BOX 13, FOLDER 323
December 2, 1946 [511]
Mari Sandoz to Elaine L. Lewis
Regarding Indian music; Guggenheim fellowship

December 4, 1946 [513-514]
Helen Dresser to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse

December 4, 1946 [515]
Harold Ober to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker manuscript not clear in the present form

December 4, 1946 [517-518]
Art Vetter to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Newspaper clipping about Sandhills and Sandozs

December 7, 1946 [519]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell (Harper & Brothers Publishing)
Regarding Sandoz sending The Tom Walker manuscript to them

December 13, 1946 [528]
Mari Sandoz to Elaine & Jim Van Liew
Regarding French traders and Indians; beaver skins traded for whiskey

December 16, 1946 [534]
Mari Sandoz to Austin Corcoran
Regarding Sandhills families; life in the Sandhills; Johansens; Surbers

December 17, 1946 [535]
Ruby Butler to Mari Sandoz
Regarding writer's conferences; realism

December 19, 1946 [539-540]
Austin Corcoran to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his life in New Mexico; Omar Barker; food

December 20, 1946 [541]
Mari Sandoz to Birdena E. Donaldson
Regarding writer's conferences; Sandoz's future plans for books; the Sheldons of Lincoln

December 20, 1946 [542]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding foreign sales of Old Jules

December 20, 1946 [543-544]
W.A. Stolley to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Northwestern Nebraska; Old Jules; hunting; life in New York City

December 24, 1946 [545]
Mari Sandoz to Gustav Bernau (Czechoslovakia)
Regarding Old Jules in translation

BOX 13, FOLDER 324
February, 1946 [551-552]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his art; Denver; dramas

"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz [553-556]
Regarding Christmas greetings and weather conditions at Denver

Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz [560-564]
Regarding Quebec trip; Lincoln social scenes; Phil Smith; common friends and acquaintances

A listing from Regional Ameircan Folklore - 3 pages [573-575]

Rose Van Vleet to Mari Sandoz [577-579]
Regarding Caroline Bancroft recuperation; visit with Minister of Iraq

BOX 13, FOLDER 325
January 3, 1947 [585]
Atlantic Monthly Press to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Capital City a reminder they will not print anymore

January 7, 1947 [586]
Mari Sandoz to Houghton Mifflin
Regarding fellowship award for Thomas Bledsoe

January 8, 1947 [587]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell (Harper's)
Regarding sending The Tom Walker; she tells of her Arabian story

January 10, 1947 [590]
Elaine Lewis to Mari Sandoz
Regarding upcoming Folklore Conference in New York

January 14, 1947 [591]
Louise Pound to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Wisconsin Writers Conference

January 14, 1947 [595-596]
Mari Sandoz to "Doc" Watson Bidwell
Regarding Capital City; painting and art

January 14, 1947 [599]
Mari Sandoz to Harold Ober
Regarding foreign sales of her books; problems with publishers; mentions Capital City, Slogum House, Old Jules

January 14, 1947 [600]
Mari Sandoz to Louise Pound
Regarding Wisconsin Writer's Conference; Moses Stocking Tales; folklore

January 15, 1947 [601]
Mari Sandoz to Olga Cosgriff
Regarding Writer's Conference in Wisconsin; Crazy Horse

January 21, 1947 [604-606]
Ruby Butler to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse; Indians and writing of them

January 21, 1947 [606]
Mari Sandoz to Editorial Offices of Tomorrow (magazine)
Regarding The Ku Klux Klan; facists; anti-semitism in the Universities; Georgia's governor

January 22, 1947 [607]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding a new demand for Capital City, should they reprint?

January 24, 1947 [609]
Ed Aswell (Harper's) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding problems with The Tom Walker

January 25, 1947 [612]
Mari Sandoz to Ed Aswell
Regarding The Tom Walker

January 26, 1947 [615-616]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes
Regarding life in New York City; Terence Duren's art show; Dale Nichols; her future plans

January 27, 1947 [617]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding reprint of Capital City; publishers; The Tom Walker

BOX 13, FOLDER 327
February 7, 1947 [632]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker

February 10, 1947 [633]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding The Tom Walker; problems at Harpers; Professor Fling; Old Jules

February 10, 1947 [634]
Mari Sandoz to Van Vleets
Regarding a horse show program; material for her novelette about Arabian horses

February 14, 1947 [639]
Van Vleets to Mari Sandoz
Regarding lawsuits; "Sons of Courage"

February 17, 1947 [640]
Mari Sandoz to W.O.R. Radio (Dorothy & Dick)
Regarding the arts and critics; "newspaper talk"; publishers

February 18, 1947 [641-642]
Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Crazy Horse; mentions S. Vestal; Brinninstool; Grinnell; Dr. Sheldon

February 21, 1947 [646-647]
Mari Sandoz to Joseph Balmer
Regarding Oglalas; Red Cloud; Crazy Horse

February 22, 1947 [649]
Mari Sandoz to Mr. Warren Bower (New York University)
Regarding Writer's Workshop for servicemen and veterans; Miss Sharon; Miss Boyce

February 24, 1947 [651]
Mr. Warren Bower to Mari Sandoz
Reply to her letter

February 25, 1947 [653-654]
Ed Aswell (Harper's & Brother) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker; he rejects it

February 26, 1947 [655]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker; Dial Press

February 27, 1947 [660]
Caroline Bancroft to Mari Sandoz
Regarding her recovery; Central City

February 27, 1947 [664]
E.A. Brinninstool to Mari Sandoz
Regarding a misidentified photograph said to be Bill Cody and Sittingbull

February 28, 1947 [666]
Shary Sharon to Mari Sandoz
Regarding the Veteran's Author's Workshop

BOX 13, FOLDER 328
March 1, 1947 [668-669]
Joseph Balmer to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Oglalas, Crazy Horse; criticism; mentions Wissler; HeDog; Neihardt; American GI's in Switzerland

March 3, 1947 [675-676]
Mari Sandoz to E.A. Brinninstool
Reply to his letter; Wyoming Pageant photograph; Joe DeBarthe; Grouard; Sitting Bull the Oglala [also known as Sitting Bull the Good]

March 4, 1947 [677-678]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding movies and plays; cattlemen; Tyler Buchenau

March 5, 1947 [679]680]
E.A. Brinninstool to Mari Sandoz
Regarding daughter of major General Jesse Lee; Philo Clark; L.C. Leedy of Rapid City; Bob Ellison; I Fought With Custer; W.A. Graham; Frank Grouard

March 5, 1947 [682-683]
H.H. Corey (Hormel Company)
Regarding Old Jules; University of Nebraska football in 1916; Hormel Annual Wage plan

March 5, 1947 [684]
George Weis to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Veteran's Author's Workshop; writing fiction

March 6, 1947 [687]
Mari Sandoz to George Weis
Regarding writing and books that may help

BOX 13, FOLDER 329
March 15, 1947 [689]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding contract for the The Tom Walker with Dial Press

March 26, 1947 [703]
MacMillan Company to Mari Sandoz
Payment for a reading report regarding B.F. Skinner's The Sun is But a Morning Star

March 26, 1947 [704]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding The Tom Walker and publishing problems; the results of World Wars

March 27, 1947 [708]
Mari Sandoz to H.H. Corey (Hormel Company)
Regarding people of the Trans-Missouri Region; health

March 27, 1947 [710]
Mari Sandoz to Lowry Wimberly
Regarding Prairier Schooner

March 28, 1947 [715]
Atlantic Monthly Press (Charles Morton) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Maytag Company; cheese

March 28, 1947 [716]
Mari Sandoz to Charles Morton (Atlantic Monthly Press)
Regarding Maytag Company; Capital City

March 30, 1947 [720]
Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz
Regarding stamp collecting; Joseph Pulitzer

March 31, 1947 [722]
Lowry Wimberly to Mari Sandoz
Regarding article for Prairie Schooner

BOX 13, FOLDER 330
April 2, 1947 [724-725]
Mari Sandoz to Lowry Wimberly
Regarding "Martha of the Yellow Braids"

April 7, 1947 [730]
Mari Sandoz to Hughes, Massie & Comapny
Regarding overseas and foreign sales of her books

April 8, 1947 [731-732]
Everrett Hurlhurt to Mari Sandoz
Regarding statements made by William L. Shirer in broadcast (C.B.S.)

April 10, 1947 [738-739]
Edward R. Murrow to Mari Sandoz
Regarding free speech, censorship

April 10, 1947 [741]
Carol Sears (University of Nebraska, Alumni Club of New York City) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Chancellor Gustavson

April 11, 1947 [742]
Mari Sandoz to Fred Ballard
Regarding New York City life; Pulitzer; Cather; Dreiser; Hemingway; Faulkner; Oniell; "The Iceman Cometh"; The Tom Walker

April 12, 1947 [743]
Mari Sandoz to Terence Duren
Regarding his art and Nebraska scences; Sidnee Livingston

April 12, 1947 [745-746]
Mari Sandoz to Jim Van Liew
Regarding a Sitting Bull book; writing; Wisconsin; Arabian horse novelette; The Tom Walker

April 16, 1947 [747]
Elaine Lewis to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Guggenheim award

April 19, 1947 [750-756]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his art; their Lincoln acquaintances; art magazines; publicity; enclosed clippings

April 19, 1947 [757]
Mari Sandoz to "Information Please" (a Radio program, WCAB New York City)
Regarding the word "corny"

BOX 13, FOLDER 331
April 22, 1947 [761-763]
R.P. Reid to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Slogum House special edition

April 22, 1947 [764]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding Arabian horse story and The American Magazine

April 24, 1947 [769]
Gustav Bernau to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Czech editions of her books

April 25, 1947 [770]
Mari Sandoz to Little, Brown & Company
Regarding Special Edition of Slogum House

April 26, 1947 [771-772]
Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz
Regarding A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; "The Iceman Cometh"; O. Henry; Ballards work in progress

April 26, 1947 [775]
Jim Van Liew to Mari Sandoz
Regarding her work; Crazy Horse; his writing; short stories

April 28, 1947 [777]
Mari Sandoz to Dial Press
Regarding editorial changes to The Tom Walker

April 30, 1947 [778]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding "Sit Your Saddle Solid"

BOX 13, FOLDER 332
May 1, 1947 [783]
Richard K. Polimer to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Slogum House movie rights

May 1, 1947 [785]
Mari Sandoz to Gustav Bernau
Regarding Capital City; paper shortages; Slogum House; Crazy Horse

May 1, 1947 [788]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding Cather-Canfield story; The Tom Walker; Gustavson; Nebraskans in New York City

May 2, 1947 [789]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding European rights to Sandoz's books

May 2, 1947 [790]
Mari Sandoz to Dial Press (Publicity)
Regarding photographs of Sandoz

May 3, 1947 [791-792]
Mari Sandoz to E.A. Brininstool
Regarding The Tom Walker; the mislabled photograph; Virginia Trenholm-Maude Lee Rethers; Sitting Bull the Good; Bordeauxs; Janises; Ecoffeys; He Dog; Ellison's Indian collection; Crook; Grouard; events at Pine Ridge

May 3, 1947 [793]
Mari Sandoz to Rose Van Vleet
Regarding upcoming visit to the ranch; "Denver Week"

May 7, 1947 [798]
Mari Sandoz to Audrey Wood
Regarding Old Jules

May 9, 1947 [800]
Mari Sandoz to Doubleday
Regarding new writers; Wisconsin

May 9, 1947 [801]
Mari Sandoz to Appleton-Century
Regarding new writers; Wisconsin

May 12, 1947 [804]
Doubleday (Walter Bradbury) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding new writers; serious American Fictions; This is the Year by Feike Feikema

May 12, 1947 [805]
Little, Brown & Company to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Slogum House

May 12, 1947 [807-808]
Mari Sandoz to Helen Hayes
Regarding summer schedule for Sandoz; The Tom Walker; dining in the Village; Boston

May 13, 1947 [810]
D. Appleton-Century Company (Jane Lawson) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding interest in serious American fiction

May 14, 1947 [814]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding foreign sales of Sandoz books; contracts

May 14, 1947 [818]
Prairie Schooner (Margaret Turner) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding "Martha of the Yellow Braids" to appear in Summer 1947 issue

BOX 13, FOLDER 333
May 15, 1947 [820]
Mari Sandoz to Ruth Robinson
Regarding the Writer's Institute in Wisconsin; helping Robinson come for instruction

May 19, 1947 [832]
Eleanor Roosevelt (American Association for United Nations) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding aid to Greece situation of United Nations

May 20, 1947 [834]
Ruth Robinson to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Wisconsin Writer's Institute; she's allowed in

May 24, 1947 [835]
Mari Sandoz to Pegeen & Ed Fitzgerald (W.J.Z. Radio)
Regarding migraines and cures

May 27, 1947 [839]
Reynal & Hitchcock Publishers (Philip Ewald) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Weldon Kees' new volume of poetry - The Fall of the Magicians

May 28, 1947 [840]
Duncan Emrich (Library of Congress) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding the Cordelling Songs of the Missouri; folklore

May 28, 1947 [841]
Pegeen Fitzgerald (W.J.Z. Radio) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding migraines; Dr. Otto Meyer

May 31, 1947 [847-848]
Mari Sandoz to "Public Pulse" Omaha World Herald Editors
Regarding Missouri Cordelling songs; Old Jules

BOX 13, FOLDER 334
June 4, 1947 [850]
Mari Sandoz to Mamie Meredith
Regarding films and movies; Cordelling songs; folklore

June 8, 1947 [860]
R.V. Hunkins (Lead, Public Schools) to Mari Sandoz
Regarding books for reading classes; Crazy Horse; writing about the Plains

June 9, 1947 [861]
Mari Sandoz to Burt Hoffman
Regarding Sandoz's plans for the summer fo 1947; autographing books

June 12, 1947 [865]
Mari Sandoz to Alfred Knopf
Regarding the Hunkins letter [860]; books written from Sandoz's Crazy Horse material

June 17, 1947 [869]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding Masoud; the novelette about Arabian horses

June 17, 1947 [870]
Mari Sandoz to George Joel (The Dial Press)
Regarding Masoud

June 17, 1947 [871]
Mari Sandoz to Van Vleets
Regarding Masoud

June 18, 1947 [874]
Mari Sandoz to Van Vleets
Regarding Albert Woodard; a navy-man; World War II; Mormon

June 19, 1947 [875]
E.C. Beck to Terence Duren
Regarding Missouri river ballards; Mari Sandoz

June 19, 1947 [877]
Alfred Knopf to Mari Sandoz
Regarding the Hunkin's book about Crazy Horse

June 23, 1947 [881-883]
Terence Duren to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Missouri Cordelling songs; folklore; E.C. Beck art work in magazines

June 25, 1947 [885]
Van Vleets to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Masoud; horses

June 26, 1947 [888-890]
Clarissa Bucklin-Smith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's writing; "Marie Macumber Days"

June 30, 1947 [891]
Van Vleets to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Masoud; Mary Chase's "Harvey"

BOX 13, FOLDER 335
July 6, 1947 [893]
Mari Sandoz to Dwight Griswold
Regarding Greek aid; The Tom Walker

July 8, 1947 [895]
Gustav Bernau to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's books in foreign sales

July 8, 1947 [898]
Lenore Taylor to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Masoud; happenings at the Van Vleet's ranch in Colorado

July 9, 1947 [899-900]
Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sheldon bequest to University of Nebraska; Selected Writings of Louise Pound

July 16, 1947 [905]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding foreign editions of Sandoz's books

July 16, 1947 [908]
Hughes Massie & Company to Mari Sandoz
Regarding payment for foreign sales of Sandoz books

July 17, 1947 [909]
Mari Sandoz to Ivan Stone, Professor of Government (Beloit College)
Regarding a writer's responsibility in modern society; study of the trans-Missouri region

July 18, 1947 [910]
G. Hotz to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Plains Indians; Crazy Horse

BOX 13, FOLDER 336
July 20, 1947 [913-914]
Ivan M. Stone to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz speaking at Beloit College

July 29, 1947 [924]
Tom Bledsoe to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his writing; the apartments at 23 Barrow Street bought out; legal rights

July 29, 1947 [925]
Margery Johansen to Mari Sandoz
Regarding How to Describe and Narrate Visually

July 30, 1947 [928]
Ed McLean to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his first book is published

BOX 13, FOLDER 337
August 7, 1947 [937]
Dial Press/Burt Hoffman to Mari Sandoz
Regarding publication date of The Tom Walker; advance sales

August 12, 1947 [942-945]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding his trip to Iowa State University; art

August 25, 1947 [957]
Dial Press to Mari Sandoz
Regarding letter of July 8, 1947; copyright protection of works in Canada

BOX 13, FOLDER 338
September 1, 1947 [967]
Richard Grantham to Mari Sandoz
Regarding review of The Tom Walker in Philadelphia Inquirer

September 2, 1947 [968-971]
"Doc" Watson Bidwell to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker

September 2, 1947 [972-974]
Mamie Meredith to Mari Sandoz
Regarding reviews of The Tom Walker; Denver Post; happenings at the University of Nebraska; the arts

September 8, 1947 [981]
Joe Rogers to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker

September 11, 1947 [986-988]
Telegrams to and from Dial Press
Regarding The Tom Walker shipments to Lincoln

September 12, 1947 [991]
Mari Sandoz to J. Chambrun
Regarding The Tom Walker; bookstores are shorted copies

September 12, 1947 [992]
Mari Sandoz to Dial Press
Regarding The Tom Walker; bookstores don't have enough copies

September 12, 1947 [993-996]
Will G. Robinson to Mari Sandoz
Regarding a possible photograph of Crazy Horse; Helen Larrabee; Zoe Utterback; Julie White

September 15, 1947 [998]
J. Chambrun to Mari Sandoz
Regarding royalties check for The Tom Walker

BOX 13, FOLDER 339
September 19, 1947 [1004]
Mari Sandoz to Beth A. Brennan
Regarding poetry; conflict on the frontier; types of paper to use

September 20, 1947 [1005]
Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz
Regarding "giving...American Indians a square deal" broadcast; Senator Langer; Robert Bennett

September 22, 1947 [1009]
Sibyl Davis to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz family; Percy Sandoz; Geneva Sandoz

September 24, 1947 [1014-1017]
Paul Cutter to Mari Sandoz
Regarding The Tom Walker criticism of the book; he dares her to answer the letter

September 24, 1947 [1018]
Helen Hayes to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Sandoz's recent visit; Mary McCarthy; Leonard Thiessen

September 26, 1947 [1019]
Fred Ballard to Mari Sandoz
Regarding Variety; Slogum House; Ethel Barrmore; Old Jules

September 28, 1947 [1020-1021]
Mari Sandoz to Burt Hoffman & George Joel
Regarding Masoud; origin of the word "tom-walker"