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 |
I have to make a short talk3 at the Princeton banquet held at the Plaza Hotel, Thursday, May 4th. There will be several much better speakers than I, and I thought you might like to listen in on the radio. The speeches are to be given from 10 to 11 o'clock (p.m.) New York2 time and will be broadcast by the National Broadcasting Company.
With love, WillieNaughty girl, why don't you ever write to me?
Mrs. C. W. Weisz1 3270 Lake Shore DriveBanquet
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let1174.xml
- Letter identifier
- 1174
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only. Includes one handwritten envelope.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Irene Miner Weisz 1
- Date letter was written
- April 26, 1933
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Irene Miner Weisz Papers, 1912-1958 (Midwest MS Cather-Weisz), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Individual Annotations
The Friends of the Princeton Library hosted a dinner at which the Pulitzer Prize winners for 1932 were announced. A previous winner from each category was asked to give a short talk, and their remarks were broadcast on NBC radio. Willa Cather, representing fiction, discussed the history of the novel.
Person Annotations
Weisz, Irene Miner (1881-1971). Musician; Cather’s lifelong
friend. Born in Red Cloud, NE, the youngest child of James L.
Miner and Julia Erickson Miner, Irene Miner was educated in Red Cloud,
graduating in 1898 and played with the Cather children as part of the play
town of Sandy Point and in amateur theatricals. She studied piano with local
teachers, such as Mrs. P.E.B. Sill, then went to the Chicago College of
Music from 1899 to 1901. She met clerk Charles Weisz, later president of the
A.F. Shaw insurance company, there; they married in late 1915, settling in
Chicago. She visited Red Cloud frequently, but also travelled in the
American West and then to Europe in 1921 and around the world in 1934.
Cather corresponded with Irene Miner Weisz for many years and sometimes
stayed with her in Chicago when travelling to and from the West. My Ántonia is dedicated to Irene, model for Nina
Harling in the novel, and to her sister Carrie Miner Sherwood.
Place Annotations
