Robert S. Josephy ([February 23, 1923])

#2550: Willa Cather to Robert S. Josephy, [February 23, 1923]

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AK[?] FEB 24 1923 Dear Mr. Josephy¹;

Here is the copy for the title³ and dedication⁴ pages. Please have proofs of them sent me along with the page proofs⁵ of the text. Please get the page proofs⁶ to me as soon as possible, as I want to sail⁷ on the 17th of March if I can.

Yours W. S. C.ather

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let2550.xml
Letter identifier: 2550
Contents: Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Robert S. Josephy¹
Date letter was written: [February 23, 1923]
Place letter was written: unknown place²
Location of original letter: Cather-Knopf Correspondence, The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, New York, NY

Individual Annotations

The dedication page in A Lost Lady (1923) reads, "For Jan Hambourg".

After printers incorporated corrections made on the galley proofs, the typeset text was configured into pages for additional proofreading and correction.

On 24 February 1923, Josephy wrote that he would send the Lost Lady proofs by 3 March 1923.

Cather sailed for France on 1 April 1923.

Person Annotations

0346

Josephy, Robert S. (1903-1993). American book designer. Born on Long Island, Robert Josephy began working for Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. at age seventeen in 1920, learning the trade of book design on the job. He was involved in the design of the jacket for Cather’s novel The Professor’s House (1925). In late 1925, he left the firm to begin a long and distinguished career as a freelance book designer. After buying an orchard in Connecticut he became active in environmentalism and liberal politics in the state. The University of Iowa Press published his autobiography Taking Part: A Twentieth Century Life shortly before his death.

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unknown place

Work Annotations

A Lost Lady (1923) by Willa Cather