Rose Wilder Lane and Virginia Brastow correspondence, 1933-1952

From Rocky Ridge Farm, Mansfield, Missouri. Mentions Dorothy and Sinclair Lewis, [Lincoln] Steffens, conditions in Germany

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions her fondness for pigs, the intelligence of plants, politics and government, eugenics, the Burbanks, laissez-faire, Accident vs. Intelligence, adaptation of animals, a personal story about scaring a young swallow chick in Albania

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions her Saturday Evening Post story "Thankless Child," editor [Edward J.] O'Brien, Bessie Breuer, Kathleen Norris' accounts of Bruno Hauptmann trial/Lindbergh baby abduction; Jimmy Sheehan, Edith Wharton

From Rocky Ridge Farm, described in vivid detail. Mentions the success of her mother's first books, Marie Meloney, Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe, death of Fremont Older, Eve Chapell, Berta and Elmer Hader, her belief in Hauptmann's innocence, the Pictorial magazine, Ruth Suckow, H.G. Wells, Zelma Brandt, Crane Wilbur

Handwritten from the English Inn in Hollister, Missouri. Mentions Louis Adamic, American crowds, the masses, the "good taste" of Americans as a whole

From the English Inn, incomplete letter. Mentions Edith Wharton's "Backward Glance"

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions Albania, her preference for city life, Freida Lawrence, recipe for pie crust

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions writing stories for McBride, Ernestine short story book, false teeth, long workdays, Corinne Murray working a Relief Job, surplus commodities

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions chain letters, H.G. Wells' Autobiography, Rebecca West, Bessie Beatty, Louis Stellman, Corinne Murray, government assistance programs, son John's upcoming 16th birthday party, Yeats "Winding Stair," Anthony Adverse, Charles Laughton in "Ruggles of Red Gap," Al Jolson's singing

No location listed. Mentions her dislike of Roosevelt, medievalism, Americanization, Mussolini and Hitler giving life and spark back to Europe, contrasted with Americans' freedoms providing life and energy, capitalism, lists Roosevelt's failures, John's birthday party

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions Virginia writing for the New York Post, W. Somerset Maugham's "Cakes and Ale"

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions own article in Saturday Evening Post, her family's disinterest for her writing, "Moon and Sixpence," Rolf Pielke, Ruth Robertson, Roosevelt as a dictator and Medievalist, Gaugin's letters, hair going gray, lack of personal snapshots

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Mentions Mabel Luhan, Nina Wilcox Putnam, evolution, humanitarianism vs. eugenics, [Aldous] Huxley's "Brave New World," reviewing proofs of "Old Home Town"

From Rocky Ridge Farm. Encourages Virginia to write and offers detailed techniques, mentions her upcoming trip to Columbia, Missouri, publication of "Old Home Town," Ruth [Robertson]-Rolf [Pielka] dinner

From the Hotel Tiger, Columbia, Missouri. Mentions buying a new car, Garet Garrett (once editor of the New York Tribune)

From Tiger Hotel. Mentions release of "Old Home Town" and requests Virginia save any reviews she sees, money troubles, clipping on [James] Warburg's book on Roosevelt, sincerity

From The Tiger (A Sweet Hotel). Laments the writer's block affecting her progress on the Missouri book. Outlines the early French history of Missouri.

From the Tiger Hotel. Mentions individualism, communism, industrialization, authoritarianism

Missing first page? Recounts the details of meeting and adopting sons John and Al.

From the Tiger Hotel. Mentions Roosevelt's Americanism and the New Deal, laments Virginia's disinterest in political theory, claims Islam as her religion, mentions her Albanian son Rexh's engagement, dreams about returning to Albania to retire

From the Tiger Hotel. Mentions Montgomery Ward return policy, "Credo," Evelyn Wells, trip to Mansfield, state of education, bourgeois morality

From the Tiger Hotel. Mentions death of friend Grant [Carpenter], homosexuality, Saturday Evening Post article "Horse and Buggy Days"

From the Tiger Hotel. Mentions Al's romance, unsold story, John's college plans, upcoming story in Lady's Home Journal about Albanian son Rexh

No location listed. Handwritten letter congratulates Virginia on making it home (San Francisco), mentions boys are well in Europe

From Tiger Hotel. Date includes "2:30 AM." Shares a charming French Ozark folksong she found while researching Missouri

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

From Danbury, Connecticut. Missing final page(s). Mentions [Arthur] Koestler, William Carlos Williams, Dorothy Thompson, Josef Bard, Hal Lewis, [William] Faulkner,

From Danbury. Mentions Kopf paintings, Koestler, "[The Revolt of] Mamie [Stover]," weather, new local fire engine

From Danbury. Missing final page(s). Mentions her mother, "The Argonauts," Koestler, Churchill

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"

From Danbury. Mentions John Fischer, [Frances and Richard] Lockridge, Catholics, interplanetary travel

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

Possibly part of a draft of Virginia's sent to Lane for comment, who then returned it.

Relates to the claim of William Holtz that Rose Wilder Lane was the ghostwriter of the Little House on the Prairie books.

Traces how the letters came to be donated to USU Special Collections and Archives.