BIB_ID
428851
Accession number
MA 1602.31
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1913 April 28.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.7 cm + envelope
Notes
Place of writing from postmark.
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth S. Sergeant" with "c/o Hottinguer & Cie, Bankers / 38 rue de Provence / Paris" crossed out; "France" with "c/o Mme Graham / 20 Rue de la Republique / Avignon" 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.
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth S. Sergeant" with "c/o Hottinguer & Cie, Bankers / 38 rue de Provence / Paris" crossed out; "France" with "c/o Mme Graham / 20 Rue de la Republique / Avignon" 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.
Summary
Writing that she is going to Boston for a week with Mrs. Fields and reminds her that she is counting on seeing her; saying how she promised too many people she would visit them in Boston, so she won't see them; adding that Houghton Mifflin changed their plans five days ago and decided to bring "Pioneers" out in June; commenting that she read the whole lot of proofs in three days and that they seemed pretty good; mentioning that she wants to discuss with Sergeant the Swedish girl who posed for the frontispiece and Fremstad.
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