A jewelry store and watch provenance in Cincinnati, Ohio, leading to discoveries of Breakfast at Tiffany's and John Mayer in NYC.
Before Willa Cather’s work became Breakfast at Tiffany’s, in 1896 Willa had just graduated from college and moved to Pittsburg to become the editor of Home Monthly.
That year the jewelry store Richter & Phillips Co. opened in Cincinnati, Ohio, the beginning state of her narrative Death Comes for the Archbishop and my birthplace on the Ohio River.
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