Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
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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 |
How nice it is to hear from you again! I think the steel industry and oil country
must be grand for keeping up one’s enthusiasms. Oh, dogs are nothing new to me. I
have several friends who have gone to the dogs. In social relations (relations with
humans), dogs of different breeds seem to have very special and individual effects.
I never knew a fancier of Collie dogs who was not very companionable and
sympathetic. Perhaps that is because they are all Scotchmen. (I think most Scotchmen are sentimental underneath their
grouch.) But, Oh, beware the Norwegian
Elkhounds! Social relations with them will contaminate almost any man. One friend
of
mine who began raising Elkhounds, and taking prizes for them, has become as savage
as they are - a biter and snapper of the first order.! Beware the
Elkhound! And write to me on my next birthday3.
