Cather congratulates Brother Emil Mohr on his vocation and his teaching profession. She hopes that he can teach his students that the world can be a better place, and she envies the opportunity he has to teach Latin. Brother Emil Mohr was a Holy Cross Brother who received a Master's degree from the University of Notre Dame and taught at the Vincentian Institute in Albany (New York). This letter reflects Cather's disillusion with the materialistic society that developed after the catastrophe of the Great War. It also reflects a disposition toward Catholicism so prominent in her later novels.