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Will you please help me out? I really must get away from business letters for a little while—I have to run away to escape college degrees5, anyhow.
Please write to each of the six business concerns here listed asking them,
after July first, to send all checks, statements, notices of deficits etc.
to me addressedas follows:
Willa S. Cather
Chase National Bank
Fifth avenue at 23d Street
New York
City2
aAttention Mr. MILNE6
Milne
All business mail (except letters from you) should be sent to me at my bank address, not to 570 Park Avenue3, until further notice.
I have a custodian account here, and Mr. Milne, one of the bank officers, attends to it. Stock dividends are always sent to me in this way, addressed to me as if I lived at the bank.
At 570 Park Avenue there are 55 apartments in the one building. Many letters get lost in the summer. The hall porters cannot take care of it all. My secretary7 herself is away for a month in the summer and cannot call there for my mail.
The Chase Safe Deposit CompanyI am working very hard now trying to get to a natural halting place in my book8 before I go away. I have not yet made up my mind as to where I shall go, and I shall not tell anyone until after I have gone.
Hadn't I better give Crowell9 a
power-of-attorney covering all my interests in Nebraska10? I will, when I get back in the fall. Just now I
must get away from Nebraska
land11 and California12 oil
for a little while and get to work on the one thing I care for and the only
thing I'm fit for. My own work too has a very considerable side to it, and that takes a great deal of my
time. That "Autograph Edition"13
allo alone, with revisions and proof-reading
took ten working months. There is always time to do everything—except to
write a new book.
I must hurry this scrawl off, or I'll never write you at all. It's hardly possible to make anyone understand. Forgive me for whining. I won't again. But it's a good deal like being sucked under by a quicksand—slow and sure.
Your Affectionate WilliePlease inform of change of address
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