The Willa Cather Archive is freely distributed by the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution–Noncommercial–Share Alike 3.0 United States License
Document is three leaves, typewritten on recto of each leaf only. Includes one envelope, typewritten with handwritten correction.
Typewritten by Sarah Bloom on behalf of Willa Cather (via dictation)
Willa Cather handwritten
End-of-line hyphenation silently removed where appropriate.
Typographical or spelling irregularities in the original have been noted using markup. Over-typed characters, where the typist has re-keyed the proper character over the top of a mis-typed character, have not been noted in the markup.
Private URIs using the psn
prefix are pointers to
psn:2365
dereferences to
cat.let.personography.xml#2365
.
Private URIs using the wrk
prefix are pointers to wrk:1342
dereferences to cat.let.works.xml#1342
.
Private URIs using the geo
prefix are pointers to
geo:0023
dereferences to
cat.let.gazetteer.xml#0023
.
Private URIs using the rep
prefix are pointers to
rep:1020
dereferences to
cat.let.repositories.xml#1020
.
I have been wanting for weeks to write to the little widowed
.
No, I first met ,b
It was Mr. Ehrman, you know, who financed the Menuhins when they had not a
cent in the world and when the father was working for two dollars a day. Mr.
Ehrman plays the violin him
Now as to the present situation: your letter has been a great comfort to me.
It came at a strategic moment. It is a great relief to me to know that Mr. Ehrman feels
exactly about these many
marriages as I do. No one knows these three children better than
Mr. Ehrman, and Ehrman is one of the few old fashioned gentlemen left in the
world. It is about the little girls that I feel most perplexed and
disturbed. Even their letters do not greatly reassure me.
As for Yehudi, I am not worried about him. inlaid
But he has the right attitude toward life. He will get great sweetness out of
it always, no matter what happens to him. His own beautiful nature makes him
happy – he gets happiness out of the smallest things. In short, the
All these reflections, my dear, are of course very confidential – strictly
for you and Margaret and a