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#1594: Willa Cather to Sigrid Undset, October 23 [1942]

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L.G. TREADWAY, Managing Director JOHN F. TREADWAY, Resident Manager Williams Inn
A "Treadway Inn"
WILLIAMSTOWN, MASS.2
Dear Sigrid Undset1;

Such a lovely little book4! It warms the heart and overwhelms one with memories of a time when the world was free and the different countries of the made a beautiful and variagated pattern under a sky undarkened by death. You were kind to send it to me, and to thus let me know that you are back in Brooklyn3.

I spent a rather dreary summer; four weeks of it in the Presbyterian Hospital having my gall bladder taken out5. The operation went well enough, but the long afterward, when one is neith neither sick nor well, but simply strengthless, has tried my patience.

"Real New England Inns"

I have been up here in the Berkshires6 for a few weeks, not so very far from Monterey7, and have enjoyed the quiet and the remoteness from my own life and apartment8 which seemed so saturated with with illness. I am leaving for Boston9 tomorrow and will let you know when I get home. "Happy Times in Norway" was forwarded to me here by my typist10.

Affectionately always Willa Cather
A "Treadway Inn" Sigrid Undset1 Hotel Margaret Columbia Heights Brooklyn 3 New York WILLIAMSTOWN M[illegible]2 [illegible]3 1[illegible]2