Box 1
Contains 35 Results:
Letter dated October 20, 1937, 1937
From the Grosvenor Hotel, New York City. Mentions ongoing struggle with "this damn long story," Charles Caldwell Dobie, Genevieve Parkhurst, Hortense Russell, Georgia Long, wishing for a haircut and a hat
Letter dated November 20, 1951, 1951
From Danbury, Connecticut. Missing final page(s). Mentions [Arthur] Koestler, William Carlos Williams, Dorothy Thompson, Josef Bard, Hal Lewis, [William] Faulkner,
Letter dated December 14, 1951, 1951
From Danbury. Mentions Kopf paintings, Koestler, "[The Revolt of] Mamie [Stover]," weather, new local fire engine
Letter dated January 10, 1952, 1952
From Danbury. Missing final page(s). Mentions her mother, "The Argonauts," Koestler, Churchill
Letter dated April 4, 1952, 1952
From Danbury. Mentions religion, science, French Revolution, experiences with Isabel Paterson, Ernestine Evans, Bessie Beatty, Katherine Brush, "The Daughter of Time," "The Dark Moment," "Let It Come Down"
Letter dated April 27, circa 1951
From Danbury. Mentions John Fischer, [Frances and Richard] Lockridge, Catholics, interplanetary travel
Undated letter, missing first page(s), circa 1951
Missing first 2 pages. Mentions "Don't Touch Me," Ayn Rand, list of novels she is willing to send Virginia, her refusal to be interviewed for a Profile in the New Yorker, the Wandering Jew
Typewritten draft fragment, author unknown, undated
Possibly part of a draft of Virginia's sent to Lane for comment, who then returned it.
News article from the Provo Daily Herald, 1992 October 30
Relates to the claim of William Holtz that Rose Wilder Lane was the ghostwriter of the Little House on the Prairie books.
Document tracing provenance of letters, 2025 March 31
Traces how the letters came to be donated to USU Special Collections and Archives.