Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| 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 |
UNION
NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT J.C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT CLASS OF SERVICE
This is a full-rate
Telegram or Cable-
gram unless its de
terred character is in-
dicated by a suitable
sign above or preced-
ing the address SIGNS
DL = Day Letter
NM = Night Message
NL= Night Letter
LCO = Deferred Cable
CLT = Cable Letter
WLT = Week-End Letter The filing time as shown in the data line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME.
Received at Main Office, 608-610 South Spring St., Los Angeles, Calf. Always
Open THE QUICKEST, SUREST AND SAFEST WAY TO SEND MONEY IS BY TELEGRAPH OR CABLE NB745 10 NM=GRANDMANAN NB2 7 1929 SEP 7 PM 5 45 MISS ZOE AKINS1= 1600 NORTH EDGMONT ST HOLLYWOOD CALIF3=
THANKS FOR THE CHANCE BUT OTHER PLANS MAKE IT IMPOSSIBLE=
WILLA CATHER.Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let0978.xml
- Letter identifier
- 0978
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Zoë Akins 1
- Date letter was written
- September 7, 1929
- Place letter was written
- Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada2
- Location of original letter
- Zoë Akins Papers, 1878-1959 (mssAU 1-5456), Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Person Annotations
Akins, Zoë (1886-1958). American poet, playwright, and screenwriter.
Akins’ friendship with Cather started in 1909, when she submitted
verse to McClure’s magazine, which Cather rejected,
advising her to stay with playwriting. Akins subsequently moved from her
hometown of St. Louis, MO, to New York City and achieved success as a
playwright. She moved to California in the 1930s, adding screenwriting to
her accomplishments. Her play The Old Maid (1935), an
adaptation of an Edith Wharton novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. In
1932, Akins married Captain Hugh Rumbold, a British theatrical designer and
director; he died eight months later. Cather and Akins carried on a lifelong
correspondence, with Cather writing affectionate letters that included both
commentary on her own works and criticism of Akins’.
Place Annotations
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CanadaCather and Edith
Lewis frequently vacationed on Grand Manan Island during the summer and
early fall for about twenty years, beginning in 1922. For the first few
years, they stayed at the Inn at Whale Cove, a collection of cottages with a
main house operated by Sarah Jacobus. Cather and Lewis rented Orchardside
Cottage from Jacobus until they had their own cottage built. In 1926, Lewis
acquired land on Grand Manan, and construction was completed in 1928. Cather
and Lewis returned to this cottage almost every summer until
1940.
