Unsigned handwritten poem by Willa Cather entitled "Tile Pictures (To a Little Girl)," penned on two off-white 5.75 x 9 sheets. Comprising seven quatrains, the poem begins: "From the ancient Kingdom, / Through the Wood of Dreaming, / Watch the knights come riding, / In their armour gleaming." Each pages is affixed to a same-size sheet. Includes a TLS from Carl Van Doren addressed to Cather, August 3, 1921, in part: "I am glad that you can stand my essay on your novels, and I am sorry that it is not better…The fact that you are nearly done with another novel seems to me remarkably good news. If you can equip it with a conclusion so superb as that of 'My Antonia' you will have achieved a triumph rare in fiction." In very good to fine condition, with edge tears, toning to one page, and corner paper loss to the other.
