BIB_ID
429085
Accession number
MA 2419.26
Creator
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947, sender.
Display Date
New York, New York, 1944 January 24.
Credit line
Gift of Mrs. George F. Whicher; 1965.
Description
1 item (2 pages) ; 27.8 x 21.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Place of writing from postmark.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Mrs. George Whicher / Amity Street, / Amherst, Massachusetts."
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Willa Cather to Mr. and Mrs. George F. Whicher between 1922 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Typed on letterhead stationery printed "W.S.C."
Envelope, postmarked and stamped, addressed to "Mrs. George Whicher / Amity Street, / Amherst, Massachusetts."
Part of a collection of 32 letters from Willa Cather to Mr. and Mrs. George F. Whicher between 1922 and 1946. See related records for more information.
Summary
Apologizing for not writing for so long, but the world is all in distress and everyone's lives disrupted; stating that all the young people in her family are in the war, one way or another; explaining that Mary Virginia, and husband, Dick Mellen, are at Camp Carson in Colorado, and her brother at a camp in Arizona, one of the least attractive spots in the state, and another niece's husband is commander of an aircraft carrier in the Pacific; writing that so many families are broken up; commenting that she will paste their Christmas card with picture of Beacon Street into Annie Fields's Memories of a hostess; mentioning how she used to love Boston, but they are trying to make the region around Trinity Church look like the ugliest part of New York; adding that she and Miss Lewis spent last summer at Northeast Harbor, Maine; (in manuscript) hating to send her a dictated leter, but she sprained her right thumb and is back in a brace from Dr. Ober.
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