Letter from Willa Cather, New York, to Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1915 June 27 : autograph manuscript signed.

Record ID: 
428909
Accession number: 
MA 1602.52
Author: 
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Credit: 
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description: 
1 item (6 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.6 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Written from "5 Bank Street."
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Miss Elizabeth Sergeant / 4 Hawthorn Road / Brookline / (Please forward) 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: 

Announcing that she just read Sergeant's Provence essay in Century; waiting for her proofs in New York; mentioning that Jack got a scholarship and is in Maine; saying that she will send the page proofs when she gets them; sharing that a musical critic is reading the galleys with her with enthusiasm and giving her advice, especially about the singing lessons; expressing her uneasiness of Mr. (Glendinning) Keeble reading her galley proofs if a musician hadn't looked at them first; stating that Mary Jewett was pleased by the article on Sarah Orne Jewett in the New Republic; asking if she has seen the article on Mrs. Fields by Henry James in June Atlantic and if she was disappointed in Owen Wister's Quack novels.