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 |
PARIS... EN FLANANT
La Cité – Notre–Dame City – Bridges "Les Editions d'Art YVON" Paris 14 Rue de Bretagne
Reproduction Interdite Fabrication française Miss Elizabeth Cather1 1225 South Centre St. Casper3 Wyoming U. S. A. PARIS 115 R. DES SAINTS–PERES2 16 VII 1930 1130
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let2311.xml
- Letter identifier
- 2311
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on verso with image of Paris on recto of postcard.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Elizabeth Cather1
- Date letter was written
- [July 16, 1930]
- Place letter was written
- Paris, Île-de-France, France2
- Location of original letter
- Roscoe and Meta Cather Collection (MS316), University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Archives & Special Collections, Lincoln, NE
Person Annotations
Ickis, Elizabeth Cather (1915-1978) (half of the “twinnies”).
Cather’s niece. Elizabeth and her twin sister Margaret were born
in Lander, WY, to Roscoe and Meta Cather, and moved with the family to
Casper, WY, in 1921. Elizabeth and Margaret both attended the University of
Colorado, graduating in 1937, and visited Willa Cather and Edith Lewis on
Grand Manan during the summers of 1936 and 1937. In Cather’s later letters
to them she often refers back to their summer visits as a magical time.
Elizabeth moved to Colusa, CA, with her parents in 1937 and married Lynn S.
Ickis, an electrical engineer, in April 1938. They lived in Cleveland, OH,
and had two children, Margaret and John.
Place Annotations
