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#2093: Willa Cather to Roscoe Cather, May 2 [1931]

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STEPHEN SMITH, M. D. MEDICAL DIRECTOR
CHARLES W. THOMPSON, M. D. ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
J. A. COLLIE, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
ETHEL FANSON, M. D. PATHOLOGIST
LAS ENCINAS4
SANITARIUM
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA2
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GEORGE DOCK, M. D., PRES.
W. JARVIS BARLOW, M. D.
F. C. E. MATTISON, M. D.
STEPHEN SMITH, M. D.
F. C. MACPHERSON
Dear Roscoe1:

Last summer in Paris5 I had a travelling case made exactly like Jan Hambourg's6. The Knopfs7 gave me a very handsome one for Christmas, and as this one I got is really a man's case, and I have never used it, I am sending it to you. You may find it convenient for the many trips you take about the STEPHEN SMITH, M. D. MEDICAL DIRECTOR
CHARLES W. THOMPSON, M. D. ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
J. A. COLLIE, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
ETHEL FANSON, M. D. PATHOLOGIST
LAS ENCINAS
SANITARIUM
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GEORGE DOCK, M. D., PRES.
W. JARVIS BARLOW, M. D.
F. C. E. MATTISON, M. D.
STEPHEN SMITH, M. D.
F. C. MACPHERSON
state8. It has my initials on, but you can have those changed. My initials seem to be fashionable now-a-days. An initialed cigarette case which I had used was lately sold for twenty-five dollars at a Catholic dinner fair. And for so many years my cigarette case was a family skeleton! Well, all things come to him who waits.

Did you see the ballad9 in the May Atlantic Monthly10? STEPHEN SMITH, M. D. MEDICAL DIRECTOR
CHARLES W. THOMPSON, M. D. ASSOCIATE MEDICAL DIRECTOR
J. A. COLLIE, M. D. RESIDENT PHYSICIAN
ETHEL FANSON, M. D. PATHOLOGIST
LAS ENCINAS
SANITARIUM
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
GEORGE DOCK, M. D., PRES.
W. JARVIS BARLOW, M. D.
F. C. E. MATTISON, M. D.
STEPHEN SMITH, M. D.
F. C. MACPHERSON
It's said to be very good. Mother11 is well these days, but I got chilled after a hot walk and have had a tummy-ache for three days, like a colicy baby!

With love to you all Willie
RETURN IN 5 DAYS TO LAS ENCINAS PASADENA, CALIF. Mr. R. C. Cather1 1225 Center St. Casper3 Wyoming PASADENA CALIF.2 MAY 2 1931 5 PM