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 one leaf, handwritten on recto and verso.
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've written ever so many dreary prefaces and things to oblige you. Won't you please write, or
rather make a lay-out of one ad to please me? Half the people, like is is
Fanny Butcher in the
,and yet while that book had little of the
undercurrent of human life and relationships, this
one is vibrant with them. Without having any
of the surface characteristics of a profound book, it is
profound.
Couldn't you do something like that?—only with taste, of course. I really
think it would have practical know know what this story is trying
to get at, from this side and that. The theme is rather unusual, and Fanny's
statement of it would make me want to read the book, if it were by any
reputable author.
I wish you'd
I leave