BIB_ID
428825
Accession number
MA 1602.14
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona, 1912 May 21.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (10 pages) ; 24.3 x 15.2 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "El Tovar, Grand Canyon, Arizona" with pictorial image of the Grand Canyon.
Envelope, postmarked, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn Road / 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.
Envelope, postmarked, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn Road / 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
Replying that nothing happened to her for two weeks and then suddenly everything happened, and she had no time to write, except for postcards; introducing Julio; giving her itinerary, what she experienced, and climbing expeditions; detailing the beauty she saw around her and New Mexico; going over her travel plans for the next few days; asking if Sergeant will go to Mexico with her one day and how her brother and Julio told her how wonderful it is; talking about a story that Julio has told her about an Aztec Cleopatra called "The forty lovers of the queen" which she is going to write when she goes to the place where it happened; expressing her fondness for Julio and describes his features.
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