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| 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 |
[had been my freshman teacher in Pittsburgh high school.
NF NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET3 March 8, 1923. My dear Mr. Forester1:MacMillan's sent me a copy of your new book4, and I am very pleased to know that they have sent it at your request. I am sailing on the 17th, and all my preparations have been much delayed by an attack of influenza, so I probably will not have time to do any reading before I go, but this is just the sort of book I would enjoy taking along on the boat with me. Thanking you most cordially for your kind thought of me, I am
Very sincerely yours, Willa Catherre Nature in American Literature
MacMillan Co., 1923
NFInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0677.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0677
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only
- Person to whom letter was written
- Norman Foerster 1
- Date letter was written
- March 8, 1923
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Norman Foerster Papers, 1907-1965 ((M0183)), Stanford University, Green Library, Stanford, CA
Individual Annotations
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
Foerster, Norman (1887-1972). American literary scholar.
Norman Foerster was born in Pittsburgh, PA; he was one of Cather’s
students when she taught English at Central High School in Pittsburgh. He
went on to receive his A.B. from Harvard in 1910 and his MA from the
University of Wisconsin in 1912. He taught English at the universities of
Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Iowa, as well as at Duke University. Foerster
was a part of the neohumanist movement, along with Irving Babbitt and Paul
Elmer More. He wrote often about the role of higher education as well as
about American literature. His book, Toward Standards
(1930) was dedicated to Cather and to Robert Frost. Cather corresponded with
him occasionally about his work.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
Nature in American Literature: Studies in the Modern View of Nature (1923) by Norman Foerster
