Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| passage added above the line | passage with added text above |
| passage added on the line | passage with added text inline |
| passage added in the margin | passage with text added in margin |
| handwritten addition to a typewritten letter | typed passage with added handwritten text |
| missing or unreadable text | missing text noted with "[illegible]" |
| uncertain transcriptions | word[?] |
| notes written by someone other than Willa Cather | Note in another's hand |
| printed letterhead text | printed text |
| text printed on postcards, envelopes, etc. | printed text |
| text of date and place stamps | stamped text |
| passage written by Cather on separate enclosure. | written text |
GRAND MANAN
NEW BRUNSWICK
CANADA2 July 30th Dear Miss Aaron1;
Please send me one dozen of those booklets3 that we send out to clubs4, with their envelopes;
- Half a dozen sheets of carbon paper;
- Three hundred sheets of ordinary typewriter5 paper, more or less like that on which I am writing this note.
Please send these things all in one package, by parcel post, not registered, and then I will not have to go to the customs office, which is at the other end of the Island2.
The World6 is coming regularly now,7 thanks to your kind intervention. Everything here is lovely now.
Faithfully yours Willa Cather Sent 8/5/29.by JR.[?]
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let2600.xml
- Letter identifier
- 2600
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- M. Manley Aaron1
- Date letter was written
- July 30, [1929]
- Place letter was written
- Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada2
- Location of original letter
- Cather-Knopf Correspondence, The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, New York, NY
Individual Annotations
With Willa Cather's input, including authoring or contributing to the biographical sketch, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., created this booklet in 1926 so that they could answer queries from readers, clubs, and critics without troubling Cather. They revised it periodically to reflect her new books and their reception.
This is Cather's first type-written letter from Grand Manan. She and Edith Lewis were spending their first summer in their new summer cottage, and Cather was able to bring a typewriter and leave it from year to year.
See #2598
Person Annotations
Aaron, M. Manley. Alfred Knopf’s secretary. As secretary to the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Willa Cather’s publisher, Manley Aaron was responsible for clerical matters, such as tracking Cather’s address as she traveled or mailing her supplies. However, Alfred Knopf also delegated to Aaron the task of negotiating with magazines for the publication of Cather’s short stories collected in Obscure Destinies (1932), and she took direct responsibility for other matters for Cather and other authors as well.
Place Annotations
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CanadaCather and Edith
Lewis frequently vacationed on Grand Manan Island during the summer and
early fall for about twenty years, beginning in 1922. For the first few
years, they stayed at the Inn at Whale Cove, a collection of cottages with a
main house operated by Sarah Jacobus. Cather and Lewis rented Orchardside
Cottage from Jacobus until they had their own cottage built. In 1926, Lewis
acquired land on Grand Manan, and construction was completed in 1928. Cather
and Lewis returned to this cottage almost every summer until
1940.
Work Annotations
Willa Cather: A Biographical Sketch, an English Opinion, and an Abridged Bibliography (1926) by Anonymous [Willa Cather]
New York World
