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I am greatly pleased and surprised to hear3 that the National Institute of Arts and Letters has awarded me the medal of the Institute for fiction. Your gracious expression of personal satisfaction gives me great pleasure.
The tardiness of my reply to your letter was occasioned by my absence from New York2.
Very sincerely yours, (signed) WILLA CATHER Mr. Arthur Train President National Institute of Arts and Letters 633 West 155th Street New York, N. Y.