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#1547: Willa Cather to Carrie Miner Sherwood and Mary Miner Creighton, August 24 [1941]

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CANADIAN PACIFIC
EMPRESS HOTEL
VICTORIA, CANADA
Dear Carrie3 & Mary4

For an invalid I've done pretty well to get so far north. Wild and thrilling country up here2. I had long, happy visits with Roscoe5 in San Francisco6. I would have made any effort to get those happy visits with him and his wife7. I went there for Roscoe and saw no one else, though have many friends there—some very dear ones. I did not let the Menuhins8 know9 that I was in California10. I have them every winter in New York11. This t trip was for Roscoe. My hand12 is now out of its brace13 most of the time, but pretty stiff, and this is the first letter I have written except a note to Mary Virginia14.

Lovingly Willie