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 |
I am certainly not insensible to the compliment of your letter. I have nothing now worth sending to you, but when I have I shall surely try your hospitality. I shall await the first number of the new magazine4 with the greatest interest, and I shall be glad to bring it to the attention of my friends, both in New York5 and here.
Very Cordially yours Willa Sibert CatherInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0243.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0243
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Harriet Monroe 1
- Date letter was written
- September 15, 1912
- Place letter was written
- Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States2
- Location of original letter
- , University of Chicago, Special Collections Research Center, Chicago, IL
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
Monroe, Harriet (1860-1936). American editor and poet.
Harriet Monroe was born in Chicago, IL, and earned a reputation as a
poet while still young. However, she soon realized how difficult it was to
make a living as a poet and worked as a journalist for many years. In 1912,
with money from a settlement and with wealthy Chicagoans as sponsors, she
launched Poetry: a Magazine of Verse, which
published, and paid fairly for, the work of poets who would become
recognized as many of the twentieth century’s best. Monroe solicited poems
by Cather for her magazine and published “Spanish Johnny” and “The Palatine”
in her anthology, New Poetry (1917), but Cather was
displeased at the typographical errors in them.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
Poetry
