BIB_ID
428886
Accession number
MA 1602.40
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1914 February 13.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Friday."
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn Road / Brookline / Mass."
Part of a collection of 76 letters from Willa Cather to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant between 1910 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Date and place of writing from postmark.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn Road / Brookline / Mass."
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
Responding that she somehow got a painful infection from a scratch on the back of the head, so she now has a poultice on it, is bandaged up, and is taking morphine; adding that she is so addled she can scarcely read a letter.
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