Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
|---|---|
| passage deleted with a strikethrough mark | |
| 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 |
35 FITH AVENUE
New York2 Sunday Dear Miss Aaron1;
Please write this lady that there have been many request of this kind and that you have therefore made it a rule not to permit condensations or edited excerpts to be made from any of my books.
If I write her she will be offended—she'll take it better from the office.
Yours W. S. C.Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let1809.xml
- Letter identifier
- 1809
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- M. Manley Aaron 1
- Date letter was written
- [November 1, 1927 to December 10, 1932]
- Explanation of conjectured date
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The conjectured date range encompasses Cather's residence at the Grosvenor Hotel, on whose letterhead she wrote this letter.
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949, in the Clifton Waller Barrett Library (MSS 6494), University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA
Individual Annotations
Grosvenor Hotel (New York City): When Cather and Edith Lewis lost their 5 Bank Street apartment in 1927, they moved into the Grosvenor Hotel, where they continued to live until 1932. The hotel was located at 35 Fifth Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
Person Annotations
Aaron, M. Manley. Alfred Knopf’s secretary. As secretary to the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Willa Cather’s publisher, Manley Aaron was responsible for clerical matters, such as tracking Cather’s address as she traveled or mailing her supplies. However, Alfred Knopf also delegated to Aaron the task of negotiating with magazines for the publication of Cather’s short stories collected in Obscure Destinies (1932), and she took direct responsibility for other matters for Cather and other authors as well.
Place Annotations
