- In search of the house in Lincoln where Edith Lewis spent her childhoodA picture of the home where a person grew up is a standard feature of biography. First, I figured out where the house had been and that it was no longer standing. Then, I set out to find out when her parents bought it and when they sold it. What I found instead was that …
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- Why did Willa Cather and Edith Lewis burn up all those letters, including their correspondence with each other?There is no particular reason to believe they did. Just because we don’t know where letters are doesn’t mean that they have been destroyed, and if we don’t know for sure they’ve been destroyed, we can’t attribute motive to any particular person for destroying them.