Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / co/o Miss Broe[?] / St. Huberts / Essex County / New York."
Part of a collection of 76 letters from Willa Cather to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant between 1910 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Replying that she just got back from a two week driving trip up in the French and Bohemian country; reporting that she saw many old friends and many places that she gets hungry for, but the intense heat drove her home; writing "All those people are like characters in a book to me. I began their story when I was little and it goes on like 'War and peace,' always rich and various, always so much stranger than any invention of man"; saying that she has not worked at all and didn't plan to on this trip; asking if Sergeant is still planning to go abroad in September despite the Kaiser being in a high Napoleonic mood; stating that she is expecting to fall back into work in Pittsburgh about a month from now; adding that Fremstad is working hard and firing one cook after another and that she is always looking for trouble.