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 |
TELEGRAM
| CLASS OF SERVICE | SYMBOL |
| TELEGRAM | |
| DAY LETTER | BLUE |
| NIGHT MESSAGE | NITE |
| NIGHT LETTER | N L |
| If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Other wise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. |
| CLASS OF SERVICE | SYMBOL |
| TELEGRAM | |
| DAY LETTER | BLUE |
| NIGHT MESSAGE | NITE |
| NIGHT LETTER | N L |
| If none of these three symbols appears after the check (number of words) this is a telegram. Other wise its character is indicated by the symbol appearing after the check. |
PLEASE SEND PROOFS MY MORTAL ENEMY4 TO ME GALLUP NEWMEX5 I WILL ARRIVE THERE ON THE TWENTY THIRD OF MAY WILL WRITE YOU FROM DENVER6 ENROUTE AM HAVING A SPLENDID TRIP
WILLA CATHER.Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let2496.xml
- Letter identifier
- 2496
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Blanche Wolf Knopf1
- Date letter was written
- May 19, 1926
- Place letter was written
- Red Cloud, Nebraska, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Records (MS-00062), University of Texas, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, TX
Person Annotations
Knopf, Blanche Wolf (1894-1966). Vice President of New York
publisher Alfred Knopf, Inc. Blanche Wolf founded Alfred Knopf,
Inc., in 1915 with her future husband Alfred Knopf. They married in 1916 and
their son Alfred “Pat” Knopf was born in 1918. Active in the business
throughout her life, Blanche Knopf recruited a number of prominent European
and Latin American writers to the Knopf list (in translation) by traveling
to meet them. In recognition of her work with writers such as Jean-Paul
Sartre and Albert Camus, she was inducted into the French Legion of Honor in
1949. She became president of Alfred Knopf, Inc., in 1957 when her husband
became chairman. Through her work in the publishing house she also promoted
writers of the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes. Cather’s letters
to Knopf focus primarily on business but the two also became friends.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
My Mortal Enemy (1926) by Willa Cather
