• Letter ID: 0169
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1910-01-26
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Jan. 26, 1910 on McClure's letterhead [bears notes taken by Sergeant regarding McClure's preferences for the magazine ] PM

Received her letter this morning. Will be in the office tomorrow and expects to see her about nine.    Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #169]

• Letter ID: 0173
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1910-04-05
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Apr. 5, 1910, on McClure's letterhead ; PM 

Her article only needs a little cutting. Will mark cuts and other suggested changes and send by Monday. Check for $200 in a few days. No need to postpone sailing.   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #173]

• Letter ID: 0179
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1910-05-31
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  May 31, 1910, on McClure's letterhead ; PM 

Sorry the proofs went astray, but proofed the article thoroughly herself. Can't use more than one article about the Labor Congress. Emphasis should be on developments abroad for protection of workers. Can pay $150 for article and photographs. If Sergeant gets to Berlin might visit Permanent Exposition for the Welfare of Workingmen and feature some of the exhibits there. Miss Wyatt preparing article on the working girl, so not sure they could use another on French working girls. Seems as if the whole city is being demolished and rebuilt these days.   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #179]

• Letter ID: 0181
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1910-07-06
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  July 6, 1910, on McClure's letterhead ; PM 

Sending an item from the New York Evening Post that casts doubt on accuracy of her article. With [Josephine] Goldmark, is taking it up with the Child Labor Commission. Wonderful Sergeant got this notice. Still wondering what she thinks of the workmen's museum idea. Can pay $200 for the article plus $50 toward travel expenses.   Willa Sibert Cather   [Stout #181]

• Letter ID: 0187
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1911
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Friday [early 1911?] ; PM 

Not feeling well, and now Miss Lewis isn't also. She had better not come.   W. S. C   [Stout #187]

• Letter ID: 0195
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1911-06-04
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Sunday [pm. June 4, 1911] , from New York ; PM 

Thanks for the box of candy. Someone from Hull House was at the office and said Miss Wyatt is obsessed with white slavery these days. Too bad she can't see anything amusing in humanity. Miss McClung to be in town soon and Miss Goldmark not long after. Wishes Sergeant could be there to meet Isabelle, who also dislikes people obsessed with social reform.   Willa Cather   [Stout #195]

• Letter ID: 0199
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1911-06-27
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  June 27, 1911, from South Berwick, Maine ; PM 

So glad she liked the stories. They now seem distant and ill tempered. But appreciates the good words. Here, can forget the present and its troubles. Returning tomorrow.   Willa Cather   [Stout #199]

• Letter ID: 0213
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-03-01
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  n.d. [pm. Mar. 1, 1912] , from New York ; PM 

Has sold the Bohemian Girl story for $500. Was offered $750, but that was too much. How can she [Cather] leave McClure's when they are so nice to her? Mr. Mackenzie already wanting to advertise the opera singer story, when she hasn't even written it. Thinks she caught the germ of selling manuscripts from her! It was a good one to catch. Is staying in town for the dinner for William Dean Howells.   W. S. C.   [Stout #213]

• Letter ID: 0214
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-03-02
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  n.d. [pm. Mar. 2, 1912] ; PM 

Wishes she were there to go on top of a bus with her to the park. A fine day. Enjoyed last Saturday. Enclosing a note from Mrs. Fields.   W. S. C.   [Stout #214]

• Letter ID: 0216
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-03-13
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Tuesday [pm. Mar. 13, 1912] , from 1180 Murray Hill, Pittsburgh ; PM 

It was hard to get away from New York, because Mr. McClure had arrived. Isabelle's mother is very ill, unconscious following a stroke. Has been able to keep from getting tense and nervous so far. Would be glad for her to come to Arizona, but doesn't know when she will leave, how long she will stay with her mother, or anything at all about Winslow. Was just called to Mrs. McClung's side for a brief interval of consciousness.   W. S. C.   [Stout #216]

• Letter ID: 0219
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-03-26
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Sunday [pm. Mar. 26, 1912] ; PM 

Mrs. McClung had a relapse on Saturday that seems serious. Has been taking refuge in Michelet; just finished the third volume. Recommends Richard Wagner's autobiography; it is so honest and direct.   W. S. C.   [Stout #219]

• Letter ID: 0220
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-04-19
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  n.d. [pm. Apr. 19, (1912)] postcard ; PM 

Has reached Winslow. Is worried about Elsie's news.   W. S. C.   [Stout #220]

• Letter ID: 0221
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-04-20
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Apr. 20, [1912] from Winslow, Ariz.; PM 

Has been knocking about the West for two weeks. Sorry to hear she is ill. Hopes she will rest up so she can get back to writing. The West so big it is almost frightening. Used to fear she would never escape it. Visited the Bohemian area while in Red Cloud and believes the story catches it just right. Winslow is unattractive; not so nice as New Mexico. Houses are flimsy, her brother's is tiny. Can't write there. Believes she [Cather] could work in Albuquerque. Please try to write clearly when she writes. It is often hard to read her script.   Willa S. C.   [Stout #221]

• Letter ID: 0224
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-04-26
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  Apr. 26, 1912, from Winslow, Ariz. ; PM 

People are ultimately more interesting than scenery. Feels restless when the wind keeps her from going riding. Douglass has been on a run for three days, leaving her with a brakeman named Tooker, who keeps house and goes off drinking at night. A big talker. Has been target-shooting with a pistol and may use Tooker for a target if he doesn't drop the polysyllabics. Mainly enjoying the Mexicans in the area, who live south of the train tracks in a delightful village. Hopes to go to Flagstaff and see cliff dwellings tomorrow.   W. S. C.   [Stout #224]

• Letter ID: 0225
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-05-02
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Sergeant [in North Carolina],  May 2, [1912], postcard ; PM 

Yes, does remember springtime in the South. Has gotten over her loneliness. Won't get to Mexico after all.   W. S. C.   [Stout #225]

• Letter ID: 0228
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-05-12
• Repository: University of Virginia, Alderman Library, Charlottesville, Va.

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  May 12, [1912], postcard with printed text about Hopi ; UVa 

Has been out with a priest visiting his Indian missions. Some Mexicans came and played for her, and a young man as beautiful as Antinous sang.   W.   [Stout #228]

• Letter ID: 0229
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-05-21
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  May 21, [1912], from Bright Angel Camp, Grand Canyon ; PM 

[Note by Sergeant indicates that Edith Lewis asked her to withhold this letter from the library.] So much has happened, no time to write. The beautiful young man she met when riding to the missions with the priest is named Julio, pronounced hu-lio. Has been camping in canyons with Tooker and doing some pretty daring climbing. Went down a cliff using hand-holds. Spent a day in the Painted Desert with Julio and could hardly get over it. Now the Grand Canyon. Wonderful how unspoiled it is, not a single souvenir shop. New Mexico is wonderful but expensive. Elsie would love it, but her money would go and she would take up with a sweetheart who would take all her attention. Has been asked to a Mexican dance when back in Winslow, and then if she can tear herself away from Julio will go to Albuquerque with Douglass. Didn't mean to go on and on about Julio—it's just that he's so fascinating. People would be fighting over him as an artist's model in New York.   W. S. C.   [Stout #229]

• Letter ID: 0230
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-05-30
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  May 30, [1912], postcard with printed text about Acoma ; PM 

The expanse of the country, along with the cost of hiring horses, has worn her out. Will start for Red Cloud on Sunday [June 2].   W.   [Stout #230]

• Letter ID: 0232
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-06-02
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  June 2, [1912] postcard with printed text about Isleta [largest of the Rio Grande pueblos] ; PM 

Sorry she has discovered that book of bad poetry. She shouldn't waste good money buying a copy.   W. S. C.   [Stout #232]

• Letter ID: 0236
• Addressee: Sergeant, Elizabeth Shepley
• Date: 1912-06-15
• Repository: Pierpont Morgan Library, New York

To Elizabeth Shepley Sergeant,  June 15,[1912], from Red Cloud, Nebr. ; PM 

Got away from the desert, but may yet go back and get Julio. Sorry to hear she is no better. Would like to go to France with her. Knows she will like Avignon. A good place to work. Enclosing a translation of a serenade Julio sang to her, which is not proper for a woman to sing to anyone but her lover or her husband. ["Serenata Mejicana," which ends "The heart of night is still—/ Beloved, sleep!"]   W. S. C.   [Stout #236]