A Wagner Matinee

by Willa Cather

Overview

I received one morning a letter, written in pale ink on glassy, blue-lined notepaper, and bearing the postmark of a little Nebraska village. This communication, worn and rubbed, looking as though it had been carried for some days in a coat pocket that was none too clean, was from my Uncle Howard and informed me that his wife had been left a small legacy by a bachelor relative who had recently died, and that it would be necessary for her to go to Boston to attend to the settling of the estate. He requested me to meet her at the station and render her whatever services might be necessary. On examining the date indicated as that of her arrival I found it no later than tomorrow. He had characteristically delayed writing until, had I been away from home for a day, I must have missed the good woman altogether.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940149755363
Publisher:	Starling and Black
Publication date:	06/27/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	13 KB

About the Author

Willa Cather (1873-1948) is best known for her books O Pioneers! and My Antonia. She was born in Virginia and moved with her family to Nebraska before she was ten. This move later provided the setting for her best-known novels which focus on immigrant life on the prairie. As the Pulitzer Prize-winner for One of Ours, novelist, and writer of short fiction and poetry, Cather is known as a major American author.

Date of Birth:

December 7, 1873

Date of Death:

April 27, 1947

Place of Birth:

Winchester, Virginia

Place of Death:

New York, New York

Education:

B.A., University of Nebraska, 1895