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#2271: Willa Cather to Meta Schaper Cather, [Spring 1942]

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ Dear Meta1:

This the kind of advertising work Edith5 does. The text and sketch are both hers. It's very interesting work and requires a great knowledge of types and printing—and of the dullness of the average human mind.

W.

I thought you might like to know what kind of advertising. Formerly she worked on the Eastman Kodak account, but Eastman is shut off by the War.

FROM CATHER 570 PARK AVE.3, NEW YORK CITY2. Mrs. R. C. Cather1 Colusa4 California [missing]