BIB_ID
428889
Accession number
MA 1602.39
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1913.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 25.1 x 20.1 cm
Notes
Dated "Sunday."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Number Five Bank Street."
Part of a collection of 76 letters from Willa Cather to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant between 1910 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "Number Five Bank Street."
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
Discussing various things she likes about the manuscript, but does not like the epistolary form; writing that even the best fiction in that form has a certain artificiality about it; adding that the heroine is necessarily too talky and it gets in the way of one's gaining a real sense of her; (in postscript) writing that this may be incoherent because she has a headache.
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