Letter from Willa Cather, Pittsburgh, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1914 September 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
428903
Accession number: 
MA 1602.49
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
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.

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.