BIB_ID
428899
Accession number
MA 1602.46
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1914 June 23.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.5 x 11.4 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Tuesday"; date of writing from postmark.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "1180 Murray Hill Avenue."
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 "1180 Murray Hill Avenue."
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
Saying that she went to Maine on June 7th and just returned yesterday; describing all the activities she watched Fremstad do during her stay; adding that when she left, she went to see Mary Jewett's garden for a few days and recover; commenting that Thornton Oaskley would do good book illustrations for a book on Provence, and Scribner's would be a good publisher for it; adding that the new review sounds promising and that she wishes we had something of that sort; stating that she is struggling to clear her desk, but can't write more since she is starting for the west soon; sending Miss McClung's greetings, who will be going to Italy while Cather goes to Wyoming.
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