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 |
44·60 EAST TWENTY-THIRD STREET,
NEW YORK2. Dear Mr. Dwight1:
I am so sorry to have missed seeing you twice. I was ill again yesterday and left
the
office early. I go away tomorrow for a week's vacation. Could you come to see me at
the office Monday, July 2, or Tuesday the 3d? Or make an engagement with me at
for any time after that. I want to see you especially.
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0113.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0113
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Harrison G. Dwight 1
- Date letter was written
- [June 23, 1906]
- Explanation of conjectured date
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The conjectured date of this letter is established by the dates Cather provides in this letter and their alignment with the years Cather worked for McClure's Magazine (1906 to 1911).
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Harrison Griswold Dwight (AC 1898) Papers, 1890-1959 (MA.00012), Amherst College Archives and Special Collections, Amherst, MA
Person Annotations
Dwight, Harrison Griswold (1875-1959). American writer and diplomat.
Dwight was born in Constantinople, Turkey, to a missionary family.
His early education was abroad, but he graduated from Amherst College in
Amherst, MA, in 1898. He joined the consular service and later worked as a
translator during World War I. Cather apparently met him in 1906 in
connection with editorial work at McClure’s Magazine.
Cather and Dwight occasionally met socially; he apparently also knew
Cather’s Pittsburgh friends, Mary and May Willard. Her letters often report
her reactions to his work, including Stamboul Nights
(1916), which drew on his experience in the Middle East.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
McClure's Magazine
