BIB_ID
428855
Accession number
MA 1602.35
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Winchester, Virginia, 1913 September 12.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 22.1 x 14 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery, with matching envelope, printed "Ye Winchester Inn ..."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / Chocorua / New Hampshire."
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 Sergeant / Chocorua / New Hampshire."
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
Talking about her journey with Isabelle (McClung) from Pittsburgh to Lake Erie to Virginia and how dull Winchester is; wishing she was in Chocorua (New Hampshire), but is looking forward to returning to Bank Street in a few weeks and working; writing that she will receive a more satisfactory note once she gets away from the romantic "Southern" attitude; asking why she never sent to correspondence novel.
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