Postcard from Willa Cather, Albuquerque, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1912? June 2 : autograph manuscript.

Record ID: 
428841
Accession number: 
MA 1602.25
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (2 pages) ; 8.8 x 14 cm
Notes: 

Written on pictorial postcard of Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico.
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 Sergeant would never run across "that book of bum verse" (April twilights); saying that she bought up and sunk in a "tarn" all the copies she could get; reminiscing about the poetry she wrote in the book when she was young and inexperienced; telling her to never buy one and "if you dislike me enough to want one, I'd rather give it [to] you than have you pay out money to scorn me."