Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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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 |
TELEGRAM CLASS OF SERVICE SYMBOL
Telegram =
Day Letter = Blue
Night Message = Nite
Night Letter = N L
If none of these three symbols
appears after the check (number of
words) this is a telegram. Other-
wise its character is indicated by the
symbol appearing after the check NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W.E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT Of all the forms of
HOLIDAY GREETING
A TELEGRAM
knits friendships
closest
Holiday Messages will be
delivered on special blanks by
WESTERN UNION RECEIVED AT File ROOM 610, 220 WEST 42ND ST. N.Y. 20FY GHQ 10 COLLECT REDCLOUD NEBR3 100P DEC 15 1922 ALFRED A KNOPF1 220 WEST 42 ST NEWYORK NY2
I HAVE NO OBJECTION4 IF THEY WILL PAY WELL
WILLA CATHER417P Ans'd by _____
DEC 15 1922
Filed by K
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0659.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0659
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Alfred A. Knopf1
- Date letter was written
- December 15, 1922
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records (MS-00062), University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX
Individual Annotations
Blanche Knopf telegraphed Cather on 15 December 1922 asking if Cather consented to her showing the manuscript of A Lost Lady to Hearst, which owned Good Housekeeping and Cosmopolitan magazines, among others.
Person Annotations
Knopf, Alfred A. (1892-1984). President of New York
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Knopf received his BA from
Columbia University in New York City in 1912 and founded Alfred Knopf, Inc.,
in 1915 with his future wife Blanche Wolf. They married in 1916, and their
son Alfred “Pat” Knopf was born in 1918. Cather chose him as her publisher
beginning with Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) and
One of Ours (1922), partly because she was
dissatisfied with the promotion of her books by Houghton Mifflin but also
because she recognized the high quality of Knopf's books, as well as what
she regarded as his intelligent advertising. Knopf was noted for publishing
the work of leading European and South American writers in translation, as
well as original works. Knopf and Cather’s extensive correspondence
testifies to their mutual professional respect and to what also became an
important personal friendship.
Place Annotations
