Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
Some of these features are only visible when "plain text" is off.
| 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 |
I am sorry I can’t come to tea with you on the 31st. I’m tied-up for the week-end. I hope to drop in at your office someday next week, and am eagerly awaiting the first copies of the book3. Do you wish me to autograph the twenty odd remaining sheets I still have here?
Cordially yours Willa Cather Mr. Elmer Adler1 163 East 36th Street New York2 NEW YORK, N.Y. STA. C2 MAR 29 1923 1130 AMInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0683.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0683
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto and verso. Includes one handwritten envelope.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Elmer Adler1
- Date letter was written
- [March 29, 1923]
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Elmer Adler Papers (C0262), Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ
Person Annotations
Adler, Elmer (1884-1962). American printer, publisher,
editor, and author. After moving from Rochester, NY, to New York
City, Adler founded the Pynson Printers in 1922. He also became a partner in
Random House in 1922 and founded the Colophon: A Book
Collector’s Quarterly in 1930. Adler’s Pynson press produced deluxe
limited editions of April Twilights and Other Poems
(1923) and December Night (1933) (an excerpt from Death Comes for the Archbishop). He also designed the
edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop illustrated
by Harold von Schmidt (1927), the title page for My Mortal
Enemy (1926) and the title page and dust jacket for Shadows on the Rock (1931). Adler approached Cather
in 1929 about contributing to a planned series in the Colophon on “Getting into Print”; her essay “My First Novels
(there were two)” finally appeared in 1931. In 1940, Adler established the
Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton University, where he remained until
1952. He then moved to Puerto Rico to establish La Casa del Libro, with
which he was associated until his death.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
April Twilights and Other Poems (1923) by Willa Cather
