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Before I close my
any newspaper contracts in Pittsburg5, of which I have several pending, I want
to ask your advice about a long cherished plan of mine. When I first graduated from
the Nebraska State, I was not twenty6,
and had a record of insubordination in Sherman7's classes behind me. What I wanted to do do than was to
begin to teach English or English
literature at some other school, but I was patently too young and too undignified,
so I took the nearest substitute that came to hand. Since I have been here in
Washington my headquarters have been in a university, and the atmosphere has
appealed to me very strongly, and made the disagreeable features of a newspaper
office seem more disagreeable than ever. It seems to me to be a good time to begin
to think about making the change which I have always intended to make, and my family
are very anxious for me to do so. My professorial friends down here have given me
warm encouragement. It may be that I can get pretty much what I want here, but for
personal reasons I would a little rather be in Pittsburg next year. I want to ask
you whether you think there would be any chance for me in any of the high schools
there, or if you are not much in touch with the schools
now, what would be my best method of procedure to find out? I am aware of course
that I should have to force my dignity by a hot house process.,
but I am getting to be an astonishingly
serious sort of person now, so I think I am ready to take up a more staid pace.
Dorothy8 has written me vague and tantalizing hints of all sorts of glorious prospects for you in New York9, until I confess I am consumed with curiousity, and would be grateful for more definite information.
Isabel10 is at the hospital, and is mighty sick of it, but I think it will do the young person a world of good.
Please let me hear from you about your own affairs as well as mine.
Very faithfully, Willa Cather