BIB_ID
428903
Accession number
MA 1602.49
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1914 September 27.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Dated "Sunday"; date of writing from postmark.
Written from "1180 Murray Hill Ave / Pittsburgh."
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.
Written from "1180 Murray Hill Ave / Pittsburgh."
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
Writing that she is back from an adventurous summer which she brought her kid brother, Jack, with her and put him in Carnegie Technical School; describing her brother; saying that she can't stop thinking about the war, even in the Sangree de Cristo mountains; commenting that she doesn't believe they will hear about suffrage and tea-party legislation for a while; asking if Sergeant has seen the last 6 or 8 numbers of Punch; mentioning how she thought Kipling's Breighton speech was good; adding that she is going to New York for a week in October, but after that hopes to be back in Pittsburgh until January 1st working on her story and being with her brother; stating that she didn't do any work when she was out west, but has done a lot in the last three days; inquiring about where Sergeant is, if she has any friends in the French army, and if she is receiving letters.
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