Letter from Willa Cather, Red Cloud, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1912 June 15 : autograph manuscript initialed.

Writing that she got away from the desert, but may return for Julio; talking about how Julio would do with Mrs. (Annie) Fields and Mrs. (Isabella Stewart) Gardner; wishing she could join Sergeant in Paris, but doesn't think she can get away, but knows Sergeant could work at Avignon; adding that perhaps she can go to Madre Mejicana with her sometime; describing how Julio sang her a song about "Oh bright-eyed Mexico, oh golden Mexico" and they went to a Mexican dance and how she was the only "white" at the ball; stating "How can I write you about Julio? He is without beginning and without end, and there is no place to begin"; including a translation of one of Julio's songs which is a serenade that is to only be sung by a "married lady" to either her husband or lover; enclosing the translation for "Serenata Mejicana (voz contralto)."