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#0944: Willa Cather to Elizabeth Moorhead Vermorcken, September 19 [1928]

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Dear Elizabeth;

I simply don't know whether I ever replied to your letter telling me of your mother's injury. I've replied to it many times in my mind, but during the last six months I have been in so many places, and my effects have been so scattered, that I feel certain of nothing. I do know of Mrs. Moorhead's remarkable recovery, however, through the Hambourg's, to whom Dr. Schleiter gave a glowing account of her pluck and vitality. With all of her other friends I feel proud of her strength of body and spirit. The summer must have been a trying one for both of you. I've been at Grand Manan for the last two months, an island off the coast of New Brunswick, where Miss Lewis and I have built a little home. I'll be here for several weeks and then will probably go to Quebec. The less I say, or think, of this last year the better. It's been terribly difficult. I shall not take another apartment until after I have been abroad again. I mean to go this winter or in the early spring.

Have you happened to see Prof. Whipple's book "Spokesmen"? I am naturally very much pleased with his article on me—though I think his paper on Henry Adams rather the best of the lot.

Please give your mother a great deal of love from me, and greet any of my old friends whom you happen to meet for me—especially Bianca!

With love Willa Cather

Didn’t you love Thornton Wilder's book? I did.

Elizabeth Moorhead Vermorcken 5308 Ellsworth Avenue Pittsburgh Penn. Mohonk Mountain House— Lake Mohonk— New York. Ulster Co. MADISON SQ. STA. N.Y. 2 SEP 19 1928 530 PM Willa Cather PITTSBURGH, PA SEP 20 1928 3 PM The Grosvenor 35 FIFTH AVENUE New York