BIB_ID
428971
Accession number
MA 1602.60
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Red Cloud, Nebraska, 1917 June 23.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (4 pages) ; 17.3 x 13.6 cm
Notes
Year of writing inferred from content.
Written on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
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 on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
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 Sergeant's book was the only new book she read with any pleasure; recommending Mary Austin's The ford; responding that she went out west unexpectedly to get an honorary degree--Doctor of Letters-- from the University of Nebraska; adding that Edith Abbott, Miss Addam's assistant was given the same degree--the first honorary degrees that the university has given to women; describing the parties she attended and stating how hot it is in Nebraska; concluding that she will go to Wyoming soon.
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