(In the same keepsake album [from when she was 14], Willa Cather signed her name ‘Wm. Cather, MD’, declared her favourite trait in women to be ‘Flirting’, in men to be ‘An Original Mind’, her favourite amusement ‘Vivisection’, her favourite flower the ‘Cauliflower’ and her favourite trait in a matrimonial partner ‘Lamb Like Meekness’.)