Henry Walcott Boynton (February 5 [1916])

#2040: Willa Cather to Henry Walcott Boynton, February 5 [1916]

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NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET February fifth My Dear Mr. Boynton¹:

I have been very long in thanking you for your nice note³. An absence⁴ of six weeks occasioned the delay. I am always at home on Friday afternoons, and it has occurred to me that you might be able to stop on Bank street⁵ for a cup of tea some Friday afternoon when you are in town². I should be so glad to see you if it so came about.

Very cordially yours Willa Sibert Cather

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let2040.xml
Letter identifier: 2040
Contents: Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Henry Walcott Boynton¹
Date letter was written: February 5 [1916]
Place letter was written: New York, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: Willa Cather Collected Materials (MS008), University of Nebraska–Lincoln Libraries, Archives & Special Collections, Lincoln, NE

Individual Annotations

Boynton wrote Cather on 10 December 1915 and expressed "a very real and deep respect and liking for [her] work."

Cather was in Pittsburgh, PA, from 19 December 1915 until the end of January 1916.

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.

Person Annotations

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Boynton, H. W. (1869-1947). American critic. Connecticut-born Henry Walcott Boynton received his BA and MA from Amherst College in Massachusetts and taught English at Phillips Academy in Andover, MA from 1892 to 1901. He reviewed books for the Atlantic Monthly from 1901 to 1904, for the Nation and the New York Evening Post from 1912, and for Bookman from 1915. Cather was particularly pleased with his reviews of O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918), writing him to thank him particularly for his review of The Song of the Lark, and inviting him to her Friday teas. Boynton also edited volumes of American and British classic works.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States