Letter from Willa Cather, Pittsburgh, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1914 May 26 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
428895
Accession number: 
MA 1602.45
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.3 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 Sergeant is a sport to go fishing with Greenslet; describing Henry James's latest book, "Brothers and Son" (Notes of a Son and Brother, 1914), as too mannered, with too little substance, to be worth reading; hearing from Greenslet that Sergeant is not going to marry a cubist after all--he seems to have taken the joke seriously; saying that she is glad to be away from New York and will probably go visit Fremstad in Maine some time in June; adding that she is not pushing herself and is enjoying the weather and resting a lot.