Arthur Cheney Train (December 23, 1943)

#3251: Willa Cather to Arthur Cheney Train, December 23, 1943

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ copy
sent A. T. Dec 28. December 23, 1943. Dear Mr. Train¹:

I am greatly pleased and surprised to hear³ that the National Institute of Arts and Letters has awarded me the medal of the Institute for fiction. Your gracious expression of personal satisfaction gives me great pleasure.

The tardiness of my reply to your letter was occasioned by my absence from New York².

Very sincerely yours, Willa Cather Mr. Arthur Train President National Institute of Arts and Letters 633 West 155th Street New York, N. Y.

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let3251.xml
Letter identifier: 3251
Contents: Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Arthur Cheney Train ¹
Date letter was written: December 23, 1943
Place letter was written: New York, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: Cather, Willa (1873-1947), Member Archives, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Individual Annotations

On 6 December 1943 Train informed Cather that the Institute would be awarding her the 1944 Gold Medal for Fiction, the public announcement of which would not be made until May 1944.

Person Annotations

0145

Train, Arthur Cheney (1875-1945). American lawyer and author. Born and raised in Boston, MA, Train took his law degree at Harvard University in 1899. He moved to New York City to practice law and in 1905 began publishing magazine short stories based on his experiences in the New York District Attorney’s office. His lawyer hero, Ephraim Tutt, who first appeared in the Saturday Evening Post in 1919, became immensely popular. From 1941 until his death, Train served as President of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, of which Cather was a member and which awarded her its gold medal for fiction in 1944.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States