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#0391: Willa Cather to Paul Revere Reynolds, September 19 [1917]

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STEAM HEAT
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
GARAGE LIVERY
The Shattuck Inn3
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
OPEN ALL YEAR
JAFFREY, NH2
ELEVATION 1200 FEET
PRIVATE BATHS
OPEN FIRES
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Dear Mr. Reynolds1:

I'm enclosing a letter4 to you which you will please show to Mr. Doty5. He can surely wait to see me until October 10th.

I am delighted6 to get those stories on the move. Yes, three hundred fifty is all right.

Please try "Little Annie"7 on "McClure's"8 and "Everybody's."9 If it's not gone when I return to N. Y.10 perhaps we can try the "Smart Set."11 Did they—Smart Set—refuse Kitty, the "Scandal"12 one?

STEAM HEAT
ELECTRIC LIGHTS
GARAGE LIVERY
The Shattuck Inn
AT THE FOOT OF MONADNOCK MOUNTAIN
OPEN ALL YEAR
JAFFREY, NH
ELEVATION 1200 FEET
PRIVATE BATHS
OPEN FIRES

I am sending the story13, or rather the fragment of a story under another cover.

Please me let me hear from you if Doty thinks it promises to be interesting. If you show him the letter I am sending you, I won't have to write him, too. I'm doing a lot of walking and mountain climbing as well as working very hard, and I want to get out of letter-writing in so far as I can.

When Doty is through with MS, please get it back to me.

Yours W. S. Cather