Letter from Willa Cather, New York, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1914 March 19 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
428893
Accession number: 
MA 1602.43
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
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.

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.