Place of writing from postmark.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Mrs. Elizabeth Moorehead Vermorcken / Schenley Farms / Pittsburgh / Pennsylvania."
Writing that she has to dictate this letter because of inflamed tendon in her right thumb and has her hand in a brace again; replying that she is sorry to hear she had to escape Italy and leave her books behind and how it is so sad to see the world destroyed like this; writing that she is glad to hear she thinks her (Cather's) books have stood the test of time and is especially glad to hear she still likes The professor's house, which most people do not; describing that she enjoyed writing it because of the structural experiment and how she tried to use the Blue Mesa like an open window on the sea in a Dutch interior painting; reminiscing how she still remembers when they met, when she had read "Paul's case" and came to call, but that world is gone; wishing they had been born in 1850 and missed the disasters of this century.