Laura Mary Moench ([April 15 to 30, 1928])

#3215: Willa Cather to Laura Mary Moench, [April 15 to 30, 1928]

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Mabel Ulrich's Book and Print Shop
21 First Ave. S. W. Rochester, Minnesota³ Dear Doctor Moench¹

Could you come for tea with me at four on Saturday, in the Kayhler tea room?

Willa Cather Mabel Ulrich's Book and Print Shop 21 First Avenue S.W. Rochester, Minnesota³ Dr. L. M. Moench¹

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let3215.xml
Letter identifier: 3215
Contents: Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes one handwritten envelope.
Person to whom letter was written: Laura Mary Moench ¹
Date letter was written: [April 15 to 30, 1928]
Explanation of conjectured date: The conjectured date range is based on Cather stay at the May Clinic in Rochester, MN, for treatment of arthritis in her right shoulder from mid to late April 1928 (see #2090, #0934, and #0936).
Place letter was written: Rochester, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949 (MSS 6494), University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA

Person Annotations

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Moench, Laura Mary (“L. Mary”) (1891-1958). American physician. Born in New York state to Persis and Henry Moench, Laura Mary Moench graduated from Wellesley College (1914) and attended medical school at Cornell University before transferring to Johns Hopkins University. In 1928, when Moench was a physician at the Mayo Clinic, Cather met her and her colleague Dr. Leda Stacy. Moench resigned from the Mayo Clinic in 1932; Dr. Stacy followed her east in 1935, and the two women lived together in White Plains, NY. Moench became a general practitioner in White Plains, an instructor at Cornell Medical School, and a staff physician at hospitals in New York City and White Plains. She died of cancer in White Plains.

Place Annotations

Rochester, New York, United States

Rochester, Minnesota, United States