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| missing or unreadable text | missing text noted with "[illegible]" |
| uncertain transcriptions | word[?] |
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| printed letterhead text | printed text |
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| text of date and place stamps | stamped text |
| passage written by Cather on separate enclosure. | written text |
Needless to say I'm not responsible for this3! It's rather wild, but it may amuse you.
With love WillieInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0263.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0263
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes enclosure.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Irene Miner Weisz1
- Date letter was written
- [July 15 to August 15, 1913]
- Explanation of conjectured date
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The enclosed clipping is dated July 5, 1913, but is labeled as having been sent to Cather by a clipping service. The date range takes account of the time lag of receiving the clipping from a service.
- Accompanying this letter
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Includes enclosed clipping of the 5 July 1912 Chicago Tribune review of O Pioneers!, "Romance of the Western Pioneers" by Elia Peattie.
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Irene Miner Weisz Papers, 1912-1958 (Midwest MS Cather-Weisz), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Person Annotations
Weisz, Irene Miner (1881-1971). Musician; Cather’s lifelong
friend. Born in Red Cloud, NE, the youngest child of James L.
Miner and Julia Erickson Miner, Irene Miner was educated in Red Cloud,
graduating in 1898 and played with the Cather children as part of the play
town of Sandy Point and in amateur theatricals. She studied piano with local
teachers, such as Mrs. P.E.B. Sill, then went to the Chicago College of
Music from 1899 to 1901. She met clerk Charles Weisz, later president of the
A.F. Shaw insurance company, there; they married in late 1915, settling in
Chicago. She visited Red Cloud frequently, but also travelled in the
American West and then to Europe in 1921 and around the world in 1934.
Cather corresponded with Irene Miner Weisz for many years and sometimes
stayed with her in Chicago when travelling to and from the West. My Ántonia is dedicated to Irene, model for Nina
Harling in the novel, and to her sister Carrie Miner Sherwood.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
"Romance of Western Pioneers," Chicago Tribune (July 5, 1913) by Elia Peattie
