Letter from Willa Cather, Pittsburgh, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1912 March 24 : autograph manuscript initialed.

Record ID: 
428820
Accession number: 
MA 1602.11
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 16.3 x 12.4 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Dated "Sunday"; date and place of writing from postmark.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn / Brookline / Mass."
Part of a collection of 76 letters from Willa Cather to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant between 1910 and 1946. See related records for more information.

Summary: 

Writing that Mrs. McClung had a relapse on Saturday that seems serious; saying that she has been taking refuge in Michelet and just finished the third volume; recommends Richard Wagner's autobiography because it is so honest and direct.