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I don’t usually welcome namesakes very cordially, for the simple reason that
I never liked my own first name. I never like feminine forms of masculine
names, in fact. If I had ever known, when I first began to write, that
my name would be printed about a good deal, I would certainly have changed
it to Mary or Jane, or Janet. I could not have changed my real name, out of respect to my parents3: but I could have changed my writing name, and I
often wish I had.
When I saw your little girl's4 pictures however, she seemed like such a real little person that I wanted to write to her and give her my good wishes. Perhaps she won’t dislike the name as much as I do.
Cordially yours,Willa Cather