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 |
HOTEL DU NORD & GRANDE-BRETAGNE
AIX-LES-BAINS2
Mrs. George
Whicher1
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0699.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0699
- Contents
- Document is one leaf with an image of Hotel Du Nord & Grande-Bretagne on recto. Handwritten message on verso of postcard.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Harriet Fox Whicher1
- Date letter was written
- September 5 [1923]
- Explanation of conjectured date
-
The year of this letter is established by Cather's travel itinerary in the summer and fall of 1923, in which she was leaving Aix-les-Bains for Paris on September 25 (see #0702).
- Place letter was written
- Aix-les-Bains, Rhône-Alpes, France2
- Location of original letter
- Literary and Historical Manuscripts (MA2419), Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY
Person Annotations
Whicher, Harriet Fox (1890-1966). Mount Holyoke College English
Professor. Harriet Fox earned a BA from Barnard College at
Columbia University in New York City in 1910 and an MA from Columbia in
1911. She was an instructor in the Barnard College and Smith College English
Departments before she began a long career teaching English at Mount Holyoke
College in South Hadley, MA, from 1918 to 1944. Her long friendship with
Cather began in 1922 when she and her husband, George Frisbie Whicher, met
Cather at the Bread Loaf School of English, a summer program of Middlebury
College in Vermont. Cather enjoyed the company of their two sons, John Fox
Whicher and Stephen Emerson Whicher, and she corresponded with Harriet and
George until late in life. After Harriet Whicher’s retirement from teaching
she worked as a freelance copy editor at McGraw Hill and edited a collection
of her deceased husband’s essays and speeches.
Place Annotations
