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Some day I am going to answer your nice letter, and tell you how glad I am that you found anything to like in those stories of mine5. They were written a long while ago and seem very far away from me. I can't see much in them now but the raging bad temper of a young person kept away from the things she wanted. The note of personal discomfort does distort, even in the Western ones. Not very long ago6 I published a little western story7 which I think is candid and not chesty. If I can find a copy some day I will send it to you.
But this note is only to thank you for your good letter and to let you know
that I am in p the place of all places where
I can rest most perfectly, and that I am saluting you from the little desk
where it all happened8. In
this garden I can forget the facts that do
confront us—Rex Beach9 and the White Slave10 and all such
cheerful things; all the overwhelming vulgarity in which we live. It's good
to come here where that the very young woman11 seems always to be moving
about over the smooth garden paths—always a little disdainful, and a little;
little self-conscious then—and to brood upon it that we had once that flash
of elegance. Never was a house so permeated by a presence as this one
is.
Miss Goldmark12 delivered your message—we had a splendid evening with her—and you may be sure that if I can go to Dublin3, I'll at least telegraph and give you the chance to say that you are or are not otherwise engaged. I would love to go. I'll be going down to New York13, alas, tomorrow.
FaithfullyWilla Cather Miss Elizabeth Sergeant1