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#1053: Willa Cather to Anna Harrison Hunter, June 6, 1931

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ My dear Mrs. Hunter1:

Yes, indeed, I am the daughter of Jennie Boak Cather3. My dear mother had a stroke nearly three years ago in Pasadena, California4, and since then has been completely paralyzed on her right side. She lives in a beautiful sanitarium5 there, in a cottage of her own. Two of her children6 are always with her. She has very competent and devoted nurses, of course, but there are always two or her own sons or daughters there to bear her company and keep her from getting sad. She is very cheerful under this heavy afflication and still gets a great deal of pleasure out of life. My father7 died four years ago, just about six months before my mother's illness came upon her. I returned to New York2 only yesterday from a three month's stay with my mother, and in those many days there were very few upon which she was really sad.

Yes, indeed, I remember Aunt Susan Hackney8 very well and cousin Katy Gamble9 – I was devotedly fond of her when I was little. Thank you for your invitation to drop in upon you. I spent several years in Pittsburgh10 long, long ago, but I never go there now. Most of my old friends have moved away and since I have to be in New York part of the year and in California11 the rest of the year, I have not much time to stop by the way.

With all good wishes to you, dear lady, and thanks for your friendly letter, which I shall send on to my mother, I am

Most cordially yours, Willa Cather
Mrs. C. S. Hunter1, 75 Wilson Ave., Washington, Pennsylvania12. NEW YORK, N.Y.STA D2 JUN 8 1931 1130 AM Willa Cather
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