Letter from Willa Cather, Pittsburgh, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1912 September 12 : autograph manuscript initialed.

Replying that she is back from two busy weeks in New York where she was setting up her winter's work; stating that she agreed to write two stories to the magazine between now and Christmas, and given the nature of the case, they will not be good ones; adding that she did not send the Swedish story because she has decided to redo it and lengthen it by half, making it a two-part pastoral; discussing an interaction she had with Mr. Burlingame regarding Sergeant's writing; explaining that she saw no one in New York, but did spend a few evenings with George and Florence Arliss; telling her to look at the English edition of Alexander, by Heinemann, which is better than the Houghton Mifflin; asking for recommendations for French readings since she is reading Balzac, again, and Dostoiefsy's L'Idiot; giving her opinion on of Henri Bergson's Creative evolution; asking Sergeant to send her the article she sent Sedgwick; stating that everyone seems to enjoy Bohemian girl except one lady who wrote and quoted Tennyson to say that she was in danger of becoming "Procuress to the Lords of Hell."