Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| 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 |
Whenever I get time to write it, I am going to make Miss
Feld3 print an interview on her
interview4. She did not misquote me exactly, but she placed all the
accents wrongly, and the words she attributes to me are, of course, hers, not mine.
The only kind of social workers I object
to5 are those who shamelessly say that they are "going into social work
for awhile
a time, to get material for fiction". This whole
silly attitude of regarding immigrants, or any other of God's creatures, as merely
subject matter for "fiction" is so sillyfalse, - it certainly never produces any good
writing, and I do not think it can produce any social service worth the name.
As I say, when I have time, I hope I can get Miss Feld to revise her interview, and explain that my remarks applied to a very limited and feeble kind of social worker.
Very sincerely yours, Willa Cather
