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#0846: Willa Cather to Mary Virginia Auld, [October 1, 1926]

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THE SHATTUCK INN
and ANNEX4
ACCOMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N. H.2
Dearest M. V.1

I’m so sorry you found no latch-string out on Bank street5! Miss Lewis6 was up here2 with me. I wanted to ask you for this week end to come up here, but Mary May Willard7 is on from California8 and is coming out from Boston9 to stay several days with me. I expect you will see her soon afterward at Northampton3. If I stay on here I hope I can make a date with you for a week-end AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL THE YEAR
THE SHATTUCK INN
and ANNEX
ACCOMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N. H.
later. Monadnock is very handsome these days.

You were awfully good to get your dear grandmother10 to church on the Bishop’11s Sunday. Isn’t it like them to have a lovely new carpet—at Ikey Johnson12’s! I doubt if it ever gets further.

Good luck and happy days to you, my dear.

Lovingly W. S. C. AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL THE YEAR
THE SHATTUCK INN AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN JAFFREY, N. H.2 Mary Virginia Auld1 Baldwin House Northampton3 Mass. JAFFREY N. H.2 OCT 1 1926 2 30 PM