Record ID:
428971
Accession number:
MA 1602.60
Credit:
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.
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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