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#2030: Sarah J. Bloom on behalf of Willa Cather to Mary L. Dwyer, April 19, 1932

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ April 19, 1932 Dear Miss Dwyer1:

Miss Cather is travelling at present4 and I am taking care of her correspondence for her. I am sending you a pamphlet5 which may give you some of the information you want. I may add, however, that Miss Cather never answers inquiries about her own books or comments upon them; she leaves that for her readers.

Very truly yours, Sarah J. Bloom6 Secretary 175
DYD'99[?] (Willa Cather) Miss Mary Dwyer1, 73 Piermont Street, Waverly, Massachussets3. CITY HALL ANNEX N.Y.-52 APR 19 1932 9:30PM

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Letter identifier
2030
Contents
Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only. Includes one envelope, typewritten.
Person to whom letter was written
Mary L. Dwyer1
Date letter was written
April 19, 1932
Place letter was written
New York, New York, United States2
Location of original letter
Willa Cather Collected Materials (MS008), University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives & Special Collections, Lincoln, NE

Individual Annotations

Cather was in New York at the Grosvenor Hotel.

Person Annotations

0319

Dwyer, Mary L. (1891-after 1940). American reader of Cather’s works. Mary L. Dwyer and her husband John were both born to Irish immigrant parents in Massachusetts; they lived in the Waverly area of Belmont, MA, near Boston. Widowed in the 1930s, Mary worked as a senior typist for the Historical Records Division of the W.P.A. in 1940.

0102

Bloom, Sarah J. (1889-1961). Cather's personal secretary. Born in New York in 1889 to Russian immigrants Solomon and Bertha Bloom, Sarah J. Bloom worked for Cather from some time in the 1920s until Cather's death and continued to work for Edith Lewis on matters pertaining to Cather's literary estate thereafter. Bloom typed Cather's literary manuscripts and managed Cather's correspondence, typing dictated letters and sometimes responding for Cather when she was traveling. Bloom’s work for Cather supplemented full-time office employment in New York City (for many years she worked for the New York State Public Service Commission). She thus came to Cather and Lewis's apartment on weekends to take dictation, pick up and deliver typescripts, and deliver typed letters for signature. She died in New York city in 1961.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States
Belmont, Massachusetts, United States

Work Annotations

Willa Cather: A Biographical Sketch, an English Opinion, and an Abridged Bibliography (1926) by Anonymous [Willa Cather]

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