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#2545: Willa Cather to Robert S. Josephy, [September 8 to November 29, 1922]

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Saturday Dear Mr. Joseffy1;

Please add this3 to your list of proof corrections for next printing4:

On page 287, in eleventh line from the top, 'recuperated' should be recuperate.

Also, won't you get them to fix the miserable spacing on page 286?

Please have one copy "One of Ours"4 and one copy "Bright Medusa"5 sent down to me on Monday or Tuesday, and charge to my account.

Sincerely W. S. Cather 5 Bank St. City. attend to cut Mr. Lesser6 2/5 5 Bank St
NYC7

Information about this letter:

Source File:
cat.let2545.xml
Letter identifier
2545
Contents
Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written
Robert S. Josephy1
Date letter was written
[September 8 to November 29, 1922]
Explanation of conjectured date
This letter was written between the publication of One of Ours on 8 September 1922 and Cather's departure for Red Cloud on 29 November 1922.
Place letter was written
unknown place2
Location of original letter
Cather-Knopf Correspondence, The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, New York, NY

Individual Annotations

See #2544

Person Annotations

0346

Josephy, Robert S. (1903-1993). American book designer. Born on Long Island, Robert Josephy began working for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. at age seventeen in 1920, learning the trade of book design on the job. He was involved in the design of the jacket for Cather’s novel The Professor’s House (1925). In late 1925, he left the firm to begin a long and distinguished career as a freelance book designer. After buying an orchard in Connecticut he became active in environmentalism and liberal politics in the state. The University of Iowa Press published his autobiography Taking Part: A Twentieth Century Life shortly before his death.

0347

Lesser, Joseph (1901-1989). Treasurer of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Born in Poland, Joseph Lesser immigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1906, and he became a naturalized American citizen. He and his wife, Eva, and their children lived in Brooklyn, NY. He served for many years as treasurer of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His office prepared Cather’s tax returns for her, and in her will Cather named him as a potential successor to Edith Lewis as her literary executor. Lesser died in Hallandale, FL.

Place Annotations

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New York, New York, United States

Work Annotations

One of Ours (1922) by Willa Cather

Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) by Willa Cather

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