BIB_ID
428893
Accession number
MA 1602.43
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1914 March 19.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.4 x 13.7 cm + envelope
Notes
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.
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
Replying that she received her two letters, but was unable to writer her back; writing that she was going to the doctor every day and is now down to every other; adding that her head is healing so fast that she will be out of bandages in two weeks and that her front hair is longer than her back; saying how she has been working a little every morning and manages to ride the bus or sit in the park every afternoon; stating how she has been to the opera twice; mentioning that Isabelle (McClung) stayed with her for a month; commenting how she has been enjoying doing nothing.
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