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#0666: Willa Cather to Blanche Wolf Knopf, [January 20, 1923]

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NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET3 Dear Mrs. Knopf1:

I am terribly disappointed, but I'll have to miss the party tonight. My face is still swollen4 and my eye red, and the least change of temperature sets up a sort of colie colic in my cheeks. I hate to miss seeing your friends tonight, and I hate to be such a quitter.

Yours W. S. C.