Will Grant Chambers (December 4, 1925)

#0808: Willa Cather to Will Grant Chambers, December 4, 1925

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File ⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ December 4, 1925. My dear Mr. Chambers¹:

Until last week I have not been in New York² since last June. This is why your letter has remained so long unanswered. I appreciate the kindness of your invitation, but I almost never lecture nowadays and this summer I shall be in Europe³. Thank you for your kind word about my new book⁴. I shall hope to meet you sometime, even if it cannot be in connection with the summer school.

Very cordially yours, Willa Cather

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Source File:: cat.let0808.xml
Letter identifier: 0808
Contents: Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Will Grant Chambers ¹
Date letter was written: December 4, 1925
Place letter was written: New York, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: W.G. Chambers correspondence concerning Pennsylvania State College Institute of English Education, Pennsylvania State University, Special Collections Library, University Park, PA

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Chambers, Will Grant (1867-1949). Dean at Penn State University. Will Grant Chambers was born in Pennsylvania to Joseph Harold Chambers and Susana B Jamison. He began his fifty-year career as a teacher in the Mt. Pleasant Public Schools in 1887 and helped found the School of Education at Pittsburgh University in 1909. Chambers served as the Dean for ten years before becoming the Director of Summer Sessions and of the Teacher Training Extension at Penn State University in 1921. Chambers served as Dean of Penn State’s School of Education from 1923 until his retirement in 1937. Chambers married his first wife, Claudia May Orcutt, in July 1894; she died shortly after the birth of their daughter, Claudia Orcutt Chambers in 1896. In 1901, Chambers married Sunshine Foulke. In 1925, Chambers invited Cather to participate in Penn State’s summer Institute of English Education.

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New York, New York, United States

Europe

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The Professor's House (1925) by Willa Cather