BIB_ID
429012
Accession number
MA 1602.72
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
Place not identified, 1945 November 21.
Credit line
Gift of Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant, 1954.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 27.8 x 21.3 cm
Notes
Typed 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.
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
Informing her that her brother Roscoe died suddenly in the middle of summer and reminisces about her last visit with him; expressing her grief and sharing memories of him; saying that she received two letters from him after the telegram from his wife announcing his death; writing that she is only telling very few close friends; (in manuscript) asking her not to reply to this letter because she doesn't want letters that are hard to write and read, she just wants her to understand.
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