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Letter ID: 0922
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Addressee: Sherwood, Carrie Miner
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Date: 1928
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Repository: Willa Cather Pioneer Memorial and Educational Foundation
To Carrie Miner
Sherwood, n.d.
[shown as 1928 in C. M. S.'s hand]
[inscription in copy of O
Pioneers!]
; WCPM , printed in O'Brien.
"For Carrie Sherwood. This was the first
time I walked off on my own feet—everything before was half read and half an
immitation [sic] of writers whom I admired. In this one I hit the
home pasture and found that I was Yance Sorgeson
[Sorgenson; Webster County farmer] and not Henry James.
Willa Cather
[Stout #922]
