BIB_ID
191668
Accession number
MA 6042
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1942 December 5.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, Mrs. James T. Ripley, 1975.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.8 x 21.4 cm
Notes
Possible place of writing inferred from content.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Provenance
Mrs. James Ripley.
Summary
Informing him that she was recently in the hospital to get her gall bladder removed; concerning an anthology for American troops abroad during World War II; discussing the literary taste of nineteen-year-olds; praising Sarah Orne Jewett, but admitting that her work probably does not belong in a soldiers' anthology; suggesting some American poetry instead of proses since the "American classic" would not comfort Americans abroad and the new books are too strong and "passionately devoted to the ugliness and baseness of American life"; discussing "Sapphira" and focusing on the last chapter and the inspiration for it; (in postscript) proposing that instead of an anthology for American soldiers, to make a neat edition Mark Twain's "Huckleberry Finn."
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