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#0897: Willa Cather to George Seibel, September 17 [1927]

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ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
The Shattuck Inn
and Annex3
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N.H.2
AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL THE YEAR
Dear Mr. Siebel1;

I wish I could send it by return mail, the picture. But all my things are in storage. I had to give up my old apartment on Bank street4 because prolonged and agonizing Subway construction made it impossible for me to work there. I dashed back from Wyoming5 a month ago and put everything in storage. Now I am up here in a very quiet hotel trying to get rested.

ACCOMMODATIONS FOR
200 GUESTS
The Shattuck Inn
and Annex
ALL MODERN
CONVENIENCES
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
JAFFREY, N.H.
AMERICAN PLAN
OPEN ALL THE YEAR

I'm glad you're going into newspaper work again, for surely, surely the good city of Pittsburgh6 needs a critic. From the few samples of dramatic criticism I've seen in the last ten years, it's gone many fathoms below the old standard.

With friendly greetings to you both7 Willa Cather