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#1218: Willa Cather to Carl Van Doren, March 22, 1934

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ March 22, 1934. My dear Mr. Van Doren1:

Certainly, I am perfectly willing3 that you should use4 the chapter5 you speak of from A SONG OF THE LARK6. I suppose you will have to get Houghton Mifflin's permission also, but I think they will give it when they know that I am willing.

Always cordially yours, Willa Cather Mr. Carl Van Doren1, 8 W. 13th Street, New York City2. NEW YORK, N.Y. STA Y2 MAR 24 1934 430 PM

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Source File:
cat.let1218.xml
Letter identifier
1218
Contents
Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only. Includes one typewritten envelope.
Person to whom letter was written
Carl Van Doren1
Date letter was written
March 22, 1934
Place letter was written
New York, New York, United States2
Location of original letter
Carl Van Doren Papers (C0072), Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ

Individual Annotations

In #1217 she refused permission for Van Doren to anthologize chapters from A Lost Lady or My Ántonia.

Van Doren's anthology included "The Ancient People" chapter of The Song of the Lark.

Person Annotations

1979

Van Doren, Carl Clinton (1885-1950). American writer and critic. Born in Illinois, son of Charles L. Van Doren and Eudora Butz Van Doren, Carl graduated from the University of Illinois in 1907, and received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1911. There he met fellow graduate student Irita Bradford; they married in 1912 and had three daughters before divorcing in 1935. Van Doren taught at Columbia from 1911 to 1930; he served as literary editor of the Nation (1919-1922) and the Century (1922-1925). His study, The American Novel (1920) became an influential text; an article on Cather he wrote for the Nation in 1921 was included in his Contemporary American Novelists (1922). Van Doren’s biography of Benjamin Franklin won a Pulitzer in 1939. Cather included him in invitations to tea at Bank Street and allowed him to use a chapter from The Song of the Lark in an anthology.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States

Work Annotations

Modern American Prose (1934) ; edited by Carl Van Doren

The Song of the Lark (1915) by Willa Cather

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