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 |
New York Thursday Dear Mary1
If you are not doing anything else tomorrow afternoon, why not come in for tea? I've been tied up with things and people all week, and I'd love to see you on Friday.
Yours Willie THE BELLEVUE-STRATFORD, PHILADELPHIA, UNDER SAME MANAGEMENT The Walforf-Astoria Fifth Avenue 33d and 34th Streets and Astor Court, New York.2 Mrs. Ernest Creighton1 Hotel Irving Gramercy P[missing] City2 NEW YORK N.Y.2 FEB 10 1921 8 PMInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0531.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0531
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes one envelope, handwritten.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Mary Miner Creighton1
- Date letter was written
- [February 10, 1921]
- 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
Individual Annotations
The first Waldorf hotel was built in 1893 on the site of William Astor's Fifth Avenue mansion. The Astoria Hotel was built next to it in 1897 by John Jacob Astor IV. The two hotels consolidated into what was then the largest hotel in the world. The hotel was closed in 1929 and torn down soon after.
Person Annotations
Creighton, Mary S. Miner (1873-1968). Clubwoman; Cather’s
friend from childhood. Born in Iowa, Mary Miner was the second
daughter of James and Julia Miner, neighbors of the Cather family in Red
Cloud, NE. Willa Cather later recalled that when she first moved into town
with her family and enrolled in school in 1885, “Margie Miner was so jolly I
wanted awfully to know her.” They became lifelong friends and
correspondents, and Mary’s sisters Irene and Carrie were equally close to
Cather. Mary Miner wed local physician E. A. Creighton in 1900 and lived the
rest of her life in Red Cloud. She was the prototype for Julia Harling in
My Ántonia (1918).
Place Annotations
