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| 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 |
This is a full rate telegram or Cablegramunless its deffered character is indicated by a suitable sign above or preceding the address THE COMPANY WILL APPRECIATE SUGGESTIONS FROM ITS PATRONS CONCERNING ITS SERVICE WESTERN UNION SIGNS
DL=Day Letter
NM=Night Message
NL=Night Letter
LC=Deferred Cable
NLT=Cable Night Letter
Ship Radiogram R. B. WHITE
PRESIDENT NEWCOMB CARLTON
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD J. C. WILLEVER
FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT The filling time as shown in the date 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 9am LNMO 58 NL Grandmanan NB2, AUG 9TH, 1934, Mrs E. A. Creighton1,. Red Cloud3. Dearest Mary,.
I have just learned of the death of your dear
husband4 so dear to us all and so invaluable to the community, stop,.
If I could send a rose you a rose for every kind act
I myself know him to have done, your house would not hold them. Stop,. So many of
us
will share your sorrow.
930a WESTERN UNION GIFT ORDERS ARE APPROPRIATE GIFTS FOR ALL OCCASIONS
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let1231.xml
- Letter identifier
- 1231
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Mary Miner Creighton 1
- Date letter was written
- August 9, 1934
- Place letter was written
- Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada2
- Location of original letter
- Irene Miner Weisz Papers, 1912-1958 (Midwest MS Cather-Weisz), Newberry Library, Chicago, IL
Person Annotations
Creighton, Mary S. Miner (1873-1968). Clubwoman; Cather’s
friend from childhood. Born in Iowa, Mary Miner was the second
daughter of James and Julia Miner, neighbors of the Cather family in Red
Cloud, NE. Willa Cather later recalled that when she first moved into town
with her family and enrolled in school in 1885, “Margie Miner was so jolly I
wanted awfully to know her.” They became lifelong friends and
correspondents, and Mary’s sisters Irene and Carrie were equally close to
Cather. Mary Miner wed local physician E. A. Creighton in 1900 and lived the
rest of her life in Red Cloud. She was the prototype for Julia Harling in
My Ántonia (1918).
Creighton, Ernest A. (1871-1934). Cather family physician. Born in Ontario, Canada, E. A. Creighton graduated from the medical school of Western University in 1899, and came to Red Cloud, NE, soon after, boarding with the Cathers' family friend Mollie Ferris and her brother. He married Mary S. Miner on July 28, 1900, and they built a house close by her parents’ house. Cather wrote that she felt her parents were in good hands with him.
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.
