Letter from Willa Cather, Red Cloud, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1914 August 10 : autograph manuscript initialed.

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.