BIB_ID
428904
Accession number
MA 1602.50
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1914 November 13.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (3 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.6 cm + envelope
Notes
Possible date of writing from postmark.
Written from "1180 Murray Hill Avenue / Pittsburgh."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / [illegible] Miss. Stockton / 159 East 63rd St / 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.
Written from "1180 Murray Hill Avenue / Pittsburgh."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / [illegible] Miss. Stockton / 159 East 63rd St / 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.
Summary
Apologizing for missing her in New York back in October, but she won't be back there until January 1st; saying that she is planning to answer her letters, but has had several sick friends who took a good deal of her time, and she has been working with Jack; writing that she had a great time with Fremstad when she came to visit Pittsburgh and had an event on October 26th; hoping Sergeant finds a good apartment in New York; sharing that she heard they are starving in Brussels and that the country is destroyed.
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