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#2132: Willa Cather to Roscoe Cather, [March 12, 1938]

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Your lovely letter about the twins4 gay life delighted me. It was kind of you to take the time.

Dear Roscoe1

Please do not let anyone get a cocktail tray for Elizabeth5. Edith6 and I have jointly bought her one, a very handsome one; Sheffield Plate, made in the first years of Victoria's7 reign—an age of beautiful silver. Mr. Wyler8, the silversmith who will send it to you, goes to England9 every summer and buys up silver plate as the old households are broken up. He gotfor me the few good pieces of plate I have myself

In Loving Haste W.
Mr. R. C. Cather1 First Savings Bank of Colusa Colusa3 California NEW YORK, N. Y. STA Y2 MAR 12 1938 1230 PM Personal