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To Ferris Greenslet,
Nov. 3, [1924], from New
York
; Harvard
Has received royalty check. Please send one copy each of The Song of the Lark and My Ántonia to Dr. Frederic Sweeney at Jaffrey.
Willa Cather
[Stout
#439]
To Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
n.d.
[March 1922?]
, apparently a fragment
; UVt
Proofs have arrived, and Dorothy's
questions will help her make improvements. Is certain, though, about the independent or
traveling guns of the British. Incident of the killing of the German with the locket was from
something a young officer told her; she used it because he didn't seem to understand and she
liked that. The little girl and the terrible baby also from something told her by a soldier.
Used the diary of a physician [Dr.
Frederic Sweeney, Jaffrey,
N.H.] for the flu epidemic on the transport ship. Is sure of the date U.S.
troops went into battle at Chateau Thierry. Claude's feeling about David's
violin was from her own feeling of inferiority when they were in France in 1902. Knows readers won't give the book a chance because it is a war novel. [Stout
#588]