Annie Russell Marble (October 27, 1929)

#2029: Willa Cather to Annie Russell Marble, October 27, 1929

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⬩W⬩S⬩C⬩ Hotel Irving. October 27, 1929 My Dear Mrs. Marble¹:

I have just returned from Canada³ and find your letter awaiting me in a vast accumulation of mail held by the post office. I gave up my old apartment on Bank street⁴ some months ago and put all my things in storage. For the present I have no New York² address except my publisher’s⁵. I am sorry that I missed the pleasure of meeting you, and must ask you to pardon my seeming rudeness in not replying to your letter. I am leaving for Arizona⁶ tomorrow⁷ and will be in the Southwest all winter.

Very sincerely yours Willa Cather

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let2029.xml
Letter identifier: 2029
Contents: Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Annie Russell Marble ¹
Date letter was written: October 27, 1929
Place letter was written: New York, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: , American Antiquarian Society, Worcester, MA

Individual Annotations

5 Bank Street (New York City): The apartment Cather shared with Edith Lewis beginning in 1912, located in Greenwich Village in the Manhattan borough of New York City. Subway construction forced Cather and Lewis to relocate in 1927.

The offices of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. at 501 Madison Avenue in New York.

Cather remained in New York City through November and December in 1929.

Person Annotations

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Marble, Annie Russell (1864-1936). American author. Born and raised in Worcester, MA, Annie Russell earned a BA (1886) and MA (1895) in English from Smith College. She taught at Worcester Classical High School until her marriage to Charles Marble in 1900, after which she continued teaching courses in literature to local women through the Y.W.C.A. She produced editions of the works she taught and wrote biographical and critical works on American literature and history, as well as being a regular contributor to national periodicals, including the Critic, Bookman, Dial, and New England Magazine.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States

Canada

Arizona, United States