Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
Some of these features are only visible when "plain text" is off.
| 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 |
Your letter of Sept. 133 was left here until I returned from the west yesterday. I do wish very much to see you concerning these dreary Eddy4 matters5. I shall be in Boston all of next week. Shall you be in the city then and can you make an appointment with me? If the week following would suit you better I shall probably be here all of that week also. My apartment here is very accessible and is a good place to talk, but I can meet you anywhere that is most convenient for you.
Very Sincerely yours Willa Sibert CatherInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0131.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0131
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto and verso.
- Person to whom letter was written
- William E. Chandler 1
- Date letter was written
- October 17, 1907
- Place letter was written
- Boston, Massachusetts, United States2
- Location of original letter
- William E. Chandler Papers, 1829-1917, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, NH
Individual Annotations
Cather wrote Chandler (#0130) concerning the final installment of the Christian Science exposé in McClure's Magazine shortly before leaving for Nebraska to visit her family.
Person Annotations
Chandler, William Eaton (1835-1917). American lawyer and senator.
Chandler was born in Concord, NH, where, after attending Harvard Law
School, he practiced law and began his political career. He served in the
New Hampshire state legislature, was appointed Secretary of the U.S. Navy by
President Chester Arthur, was elected to the U.S. Senate, representing New
Hampshire from 1887 to 1901, and then resumed the practice of law. In 1907,
Cather contacted him because of his connection to lawsuits concerning Mary
Baker Eddy and her son George Washington Glover.
Eddy, Mary Baker (1821-1910). American religious leader. Born in New Hampshire, Mary Baker Eddy was married three times, first to George Washington Glover (married 1843, died 1844), then to Daniel Patterson (married 1853, divorced 1873), and finally to Asa Gilbert Eddy (married 1877, died 1882). After being treated by Phinneas Parker Quimby and after Quimby’s death, in 1866, she experienced a revelation about spiritual healing of the body and in 1870 began teaching others about what became known as Christian Science. Her influential book Science and Health was first published in 1875. Both Eddy and the Christian Science Church she founded had long and complex histories, involving multiple conflicts and lawsuits. Cather was assigned to fact check and revise Georgine Milmine’s exposé on Eddy and the church for publication in McClure’s Magazine and spent a great deal of time in New England in 1907 and 1908 interviewing people about and checking legal records pertaining to Eddy.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
"The Life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the History of Christian Science," McClure's Magazine (1907 to 1908) by Georgine Milmine
