Charlotte Preussner Lambrecht (August 21 [1935])

#1016: Willa Cather to Charlotte Preussner Lambrecht, August 21 [1935]

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Tre Coci m. 1820 coi Monti Cadini m. 2589 Fot. G. Ghedina – Cortina (Ripr. vieta)
Brunner & C. – Como August 21 My Dear Friend¹;

I am staying at this hotel in the Italian Alps, on the border of Austria³. I did not forget your birthday this year, but I was far away. My love to you and Lydia⁴ & Pauline⁵

Willa Cather Mrs. C. F. Lambrecht¹ Inavale⁶ Nebraska U.S.A. [illegible]

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let1016.xml
Letter identifier: 1016
Contents: Document is one leaf with image of the Cadini Misurina, a group of the Dolomites, on recto. Handwritten message on verso of postcard.
Person to whom letter was written: Charlotte Preussner Lambrecht¹
Date letter was written: August 21 [1935]
Explanation of conjectured date: The year of this letter is derived from Cather and Lewis spending ten days in the Dolomites in August 1935.
Place letter was written: Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy²
Location of original letter: WCPM Collection, National Willa Cather Center, Red Cloud, NE

Person Annotations

0072

Lambrecht, Charlotte Preussner (1851-1941). Cather’s Webster County neighbor and friend. Charlotte Preussner was born in Germany and came with members of her family to the U.S. She married Carl F. Lambrecht in 1874 in Freeport, IL. The Lambrechts came to the Catherton area of Webster County, NE, in 1878, homesteading south of the Cather family’s lands. Their eight children were similar in age to the children of the Charles Cather family. In later life, Charlotte Lambrecht was one of the old friends to whom Willa Cather would send presents.

0070

Lambrecht, Lydia (1875-1960). Daughter of Cather’s Webster County friend, Charlotte Lambrecht. Lydia Lambrecht was born in Illinois, daughter of Carl and Charlotte Lambrecht, who had both emigrated from Germany. The family moved to the Catherton area of Webster County, NE, in 1878. Lydia and her sister, Pauline, both of whom lived with their mother and brother Julius on the family farm, made Cather a quilt after she admired one while visiting their house.

0071

Lambrecht, Pauline (1877-1953). Daughter of Cather’s Webster County friend, Charlotte Lambrecht. Pauline Lambrecht was born in Illinois, daughter of Carl and Charlotte Lambrecht, who had both immigrated from Germany. The family moved to the Catherton area of Webster County, NE, in 1878. Pauline and her sister, Lydia, both of whom lived with their mother and brother Julius on the family farm, made Cather a quilt after she admired one while visiting their house.

Place Annotations

Cortina d'Ampezzo, Veneto, Italy

Austria

Inavale, Nebraska, United States