Possible date of writing inferred from content.
Written from "No. 5 Bank Street / New York."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant" with "c/o Hottinguer & Cie, Bankers / 38 rue de Provence" crossed out; "Paris / France" with "c/o Mme Easton Paris / 85 R de Sévres[?]" written in unidentified hand in purple ink above.
Part of a collection of 76 letters from Willa Cather to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant between 1910 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Updating her on what she is doing work on in the apartment; complimenting the book Sergeant sent her for Christmas; writing that she has been hearing a lot of music and that she has a copy of "April twilights" for her; adding that she would love to send her a copy of the new story (O Pioneers!) which is almost done and twice as long as "Alexander"; mentioning that she has taken her themes from the long grass, as Dvořák did in the New World Symphony; stating that she's nervous about the new story even though it's the story she's always wanted to write and that probably very few people will like it.