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 June twenty-ninth 1911. Dear Mr. Braithwaite1:
I am very much interested in reading your outline. It seems to me that it might make an extremely interesting article, but McClure's3 never does anything at all in the way of literary criticism. Every magazine that specializes (as we specialize along sociological and economic lines) must, of course, leave some subjects absolutely untouched; and literary critidism is one of the things that we never touch, even remotely. I think the best possible essay in criticism would be a discordant note in a magazine so essentially journalistic as McClure's.
Very sincerely yours, Willa Sibert Cather William Stanley Braithwaite, Esq., 223 West Canton St., Boston, Mass.4Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0200.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0200
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto and verso.
- Person to whom letter was written
- William Stanley Braithwaite 1
- Date letter was written
- June 29, 1911
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, 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
Person Annotations
Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962). American writer,
anthologist, and critic. William Braithwaite was born in Boston,
MA; his father was from British Guiana, his mother was the daughter of an
enslaved person from North Carolina. He was forced to quit school at twelve
to work. He began to write poetry and essays, contributing to many
periodicals, including the Boston Evening Transcript,
of which he became the literary editor, and McClure’s
while Cather was editor. He edited many anthologies and included Cather’s
poem, “The Palatine” in his Anthology of Magazine Verse
for 1913 (1913), the first of an annual series he published from
1913 to 1939.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
McClure's Magazine
