Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
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| 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 |
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HB NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET April 18 Houghton Mifflin Co.
Boston3:
Please do not forward mail to me at 1180 Murray Hill Ave.4 Pittsburgh5. The house there at which I used to stay has been sold. Please forward all mail to my New York2 address, which is No. 5 Bank Street6. To avoid mistakes, please erase the Pittsburgh address from your books, as I shall not be using it again.
Very sincerely yours Willa S. Cather HOUGHTON MIFFLINCOMPANY
APR 2O 10 12AM -16
BOSTON
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0354.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0354
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Houghton Mifflin Co.1
- Date letter was written
- April 18 [1916]
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Houghton Mifflin Company correspondence and records, 1832-1944 (MSAm1925), Harvard University, Houghton Library, Cambridge, MA
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.
5 Bank Street (New York City): The apartment Cather shared with Edith Lewis beginning in 1912, located in Greenwich Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Subway construction forced Cather and Lewis to relocate in 1927.
Person Annotations
Unknown staff member(s) from Houghton Mifflin Co. Cather's frequent contacts at Houghton Mifflin included Ferris Greenslet, Roger L. Scaife, and Alverda Van Tuyll.
Place Annotations
