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Postcard from Willa Cather, Red Cloud, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1912 July 5 : autograph manuscript initialed.

BIB_ID
428828
Accession number
MA 1602.16
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Red Cloud, Nebraska, 1912 July 5.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 8.3 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on a postcard.
Enclosed with corrected typescript of a poem [Prairie Spring] with first line "Evening and the flat land ..."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped; with letterhead "Forty-four East Twenty-third Street / New York"; addressed to "Miss Elizabeth S. Sergeant" with "4 Hawthorn Road / Brookline / Mass" crossed out and "Chisham / N/H / to Mr H.G. Pearson" written in unidentified hand to the left.
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
Hoping to hear she is better; writing that she is going to the Bohemian area to see the wheat harvest next week and then leaving for Pittsburgh in about two weeks; adding that she will work on a story to be called "The White Mulberry Tree" that will terrify Mr. (Ferris) Greenslet.