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#1521: Willa Cather to Zoë Akins, December 30, 1940

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ My dear Zoe1:

Happy New Year to you. I had one of the happiest Christmases of my life in the French Hospital, and my hand4 is slowly getting better. For Heaven sake, don't waste your time writing to me about "Sapphira"5! When I get back into the world again, I will give you a signal and you must come to see me and tell me what you have to say about that book, and many other things.

Faithfully yours, WILLA CATHER Per S.J. Bloom Secretary
Mrs. Hugo Rumbold, (Zoe Akins)1 c/o Charles Scribner's Sons, 597 Fifth Avenue, New York City.2 NEW YORK. N.Y.2 DEC 30 1940 6—PM Personal—Please Forward