Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| passage deleted with a strikethrough mark | |
| passage deleted by overwritten added letters | |
| 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 |
Please let me thank you for your kindness in writing to me. I am heartily glad that you like the story5, and I hope that you may find others which will interest you in a volume6 of mine which McClure Phillips & Co. publish this Spring. Thanking you cordially for your kindness, I am
Very Truly yours (Miss) Willa Sibert Cather. February second. Mr. Otto Lichtenberg1 Princeton3 Wisconsin. PITTSBURGH R. P. D.2 FEB 3 1905Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0102.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0102
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes one handwritten envelope.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Otto Lichtenberg 1
- Date letter was written
- February 2 [1905]
- Place letter was written
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library (#6494-6494-i), University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA
Individual Annotations
1180 Murray Hill Avenue (Pittsburgh, PA): Located in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA, now part of the Murray Hill Avenue Historic District, 1180 Murray Hill was the home of Judge Samuel A. McClung and his family. Cather lived there at Isabelle McClung’s invitation from 1901 to 1906. She returned there to visit multiple times until 1915, often writing during these visits.
Person Annotations
Lichtenberg, Otto (1852-before 1920). Drugstore owner; reader of Cather. Born in Germany, Lichtenberg came to the U.S. in 1870. In 1878 he married German-born Mathilde Zobel, and they had six children. The family lived in the village of Princeton, Green Lake County, WI, into the 1940s. Many small-town drugstores carried a stock of books and magazines, and Lichtenberg probably wrote Cather about “The Sculptor’s Funeral” after it appeared in McClure’s Magazine in January 1905.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
"The Sculptor's Funeral," McClure's Magazine (January 1905) by Willa Cather
The Troll Garden (1905) by Willa Cather
