Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| 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 |
NORTHEAST HARBOR2
MAINE August 17, 1946 Rabbi Solomon Goldman1 3760 North Pine GroveAvenue Chicago, 13, Illinois4
Dear Sir:
I wonder why you want any opinion from contemporary writers on the Bible5 as Literature. Surely the great period of
English Literature immediately followed upon the translations of the Bible into
English, -- incidental translations which came with the early low church sects, and culminated in
finally the great translation under
James I6.
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let2481.xml
- Letter identifier
- 2481
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Solomon Goldman 1
- Date letter was written
- August 17, 1946
- Place letter was written
- Northeast Harbor, Maine, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Willa Cather Collection (Cather 22), Drew University Library, Special Collections and Archives, Madison, NJ
Individual Annotations
Asticou Inn (Northeast Harbor, ME): Originally built in 1883 by A. C. Savage, the Asticou Inn was destroyed by a fire in 1899, but rebuilt by 1901. When the war and health considerations made travel to Grand Manan impossible, Willa Cather and Edith Lewis stayed at the Asticou in the 1940s, occupying a small cottage on the grounds of the inn.
Person Annotations
Goldman, Solomon (1893-1953). American Conservative Rabbi. Born in Russia, Solomon Goldman emigrated with his parents to New York City. He earned a BA from New York University in 1917 and was ordained as a Rabbi from the Jewish Theological Seminary in 1918. After serving congregations in Brooklyn, NY, and Cleveland, OH, he became Rabbi of the Anseh Emet Synagogue in Chicago in 1929, where he served until his death. He was known for his liberalizing influence on Conservative Judaism and for his promotion of Zionism.
Stuart, James Charles (1566-1625). ("James VI of Scotland and James I of England"). Scottish and English king. Born in Scotland, only son of Mary, Queen of Scots, and her second husband, Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, James became king of Scotland in 1567 when his mother was forced to abdicate. Baptized a Roman Catholic, he was brought up as a Protestant. He married Princess Anne of Denmark in 1589; they had three children survive to adulthood. Upon the death of his cousin Queen Elizabeth I of England, James became the king of England. A believer in absolute monarchy, James’s reign was marked by continuing controversies between Catholics and Protestants. In 1604, James commissioned a new translation of the Bible for the English church; it was completed in 1611, and became known as the King James Version; it remained the standard version in English-speaking countries for more than three centuries. Cather considered it one of the great influences on English literature.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
The Bible
