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Dear Mr. Usher:

I have just returned from the West Coast to find your letter which tells me that I have had the very gratifying honor to be made a Fellow of the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences. I am very happy to accept this Fellowship, and I hope to attend the meetings of the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ when I am in or near Boston.

Sincerely yours,

Willa Cather

Transcription:

Marian Anderson accepts with pleasure her election Fellow of the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences

Translation:

Dear Mr Oncley,

Forgive me not yet having answered : I waited for the other papers to arrive. As I leave for a few days this evening, I feel the need to express my deep appreciation & my gratefulness for the honor bestowed on me. Am sorry & rather ashamed to write so hastily, but I just came back from The States & go away again! Please transfer to the Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ my feelings & believe me to be most sincerely yours Nadia Boulanger

16 mai 1962 [16 May 1962]

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Dear Mr. Bauer:

By the date of this letter and that on the blank you sent me, you have already learned something very fundamental about me, that is my power of procrastination. I make nice excuses for myself, such as getting a photograph from one of my friends, also my steady occupation with other people's faces. This summer I will also be on the jobs of two photographic workshops, one at the University of Oregon for which I enclose the folder.

Of course I am a bit surprised by your offer of making me a fellow of such a noble organization as the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences and have never known anyone in my field, except Ansel Adams, a recent Fellow, who had received the honor. Naturally I accept with pleasure and I hope due humility. For the most part I have remained contentedly in a remote part of the photographic picture, but you will find in the copy of APERTURE as good a report of my past as is necessary.

I have just received a letter of congratulation from my old friend William Wilson Wurster, a Fellow since 1944. I think he must be the only person in the whole Bay Region who has noted this. My eldest son s [sic] first job in Architecture was in the office of Bill Wurster.

It is very interesting to me to note that Martha Graham is the other woman chosen at this time. I photographed her in 1931 but most of the photographs have never been shown since printed that year in Vanity Fair. This applies also the the [sic] Chinese architect Pei, whom I admire excessively.

Sincerely,

Imogen Cunningham

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Dear Dr. Davis,

Indeed, I wrote to you expressing my warm appreciation of the honour paid to me on my election to the American Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾ of Arts and Sciences. This was at the time when Tanzania was at war and many letters were lost or diverted. I apologise deeply for my seeming lack of response and rudeness, please believe that I am not responsible. Since you have not received my previous letter, may I say again how greatly honoured I am to be an Honorary Member of this august body. I return the form herewith.

Yours sincerely

Mary Leakey