BIB_ID
428883
Accession number
MA 1602.38
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1913 November 19.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.1 x 20.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Number Five Bank Street."
Envelope, postmarked, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Se [portion missing] / 4 Hawthor [portion missing] / Brook [portion missing] / Mass."
Envelope is missing portion with part of the address and stamp.
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, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Se [portion missing] / 4 Hawthor [portion missing] / Brook [portion missing] / Mass."
Envelope is missing portion with part of the address and stamp.
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
Explaining how her Swedish cousin (Lillian Thekla Brandthall Gore) died in Paris while under an operation, so she went and spent a few days in Washington with her husband (James Howard Gore); writing that her new novel (Song of the lark) "took a bound" before she left Pittsburgh and wrote 28,000 words in four weeks, so it is almost finished; asking if she saw the Singer article in the December McClure's and says how Fremstad is delighted about it; adding that she invited to see Mrs. Fields in Boston, but doesn't think she can go before Christmas; saying "Wasn't it compromising to have Mr. (Hamilton Wright) Mabie (of Outlook) say all those kind things about 'O Pioneers'! Him, of all folks!"; wishing Sergeant was seeing the Russian dancers with her tonight and that she can tell her about her Swedish cousin one day; (in postscript) adding that Mrs. Fields writes of the last naked woman on the McClure cover which she find humorous and pleases her.
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