 Anna Pavelka was her old friend who was the inspiration for the character Antonia. And this letter is inviting Cather to a wedding dinner for Anna's daughter that was happening the same fall that Antonia was published. Here's another copy of a book. This is one that Cather gave to her partner Edith Lewis shortly after the novel came out. Now something that's great about Edith Lewis's copies of Lily Cather's books is that she put in photographs of Cather at about the