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 |
TELEGRAM
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT GEORGE W. E. ATKINS, FIRST VICE PRESIDENT Charge to the account of
CLASS OF SERVICE DESIRED
Telegram
Day Letter
Night Message
Night Letter
Patrons should mark an X opposite the class of service desired; OTHERWISE THE MESSAGE WILL BE TRANSMITTED AS A FULL-RATE TELEGRAM
Send the following message, subject to the terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to Form 1228A
Receiver's No.
Check
Time Filed January 12, 1924. City Editor, Omaha Daily News3, Omaha, Nebraska4.
IF I MAKE ANY PUBLIC STATEMENT REGARDING THIS PICTURE5, I THINK IT SHOULD BE MADE TO THE COMMITTEE AT WHOSE REQUEST I ORDERED IT.
CORDIALLY YOURS Willa Cather.Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0713.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0713
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram. Cather sent this copy as an enclosure with #0714.
- Person to whom letter was written
- City Editor of the Omaha Daily News 1
- Date letter was written
- January 12, 1924
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library (6494), University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA
Person Annotations
0871
Unknown recipient. No further information is available about this person.
Place Annotations
New York, New York, United States
Omaha, Nebraska, United States
Work Annotations
Omaha Daily News
Portrait of Willa Cather by Léon Bakst (1923).
