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#2551: Willa Cather to Robert S. Josephy, [April 6, 1923]

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NUMBER FIVE BANK STREET3 Ans'd by D.S.
APR 7-1923
Filed by FK[?] FridayDear Mr. Josephy1;

The list of names I gave you, for complimentary copies of "April Twilights"4, was for the commercial edition5 of the book, not the limited.

Will you please add to the list the name of Mrs. Ewan Macpherson6, 115 west 11th street, New York2.

Yours W. S. C.ather

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Source File:
cat.let2551.xml
Letter identifier
2551
Contents
Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only. Letter was originally enclosed in #2552, in which Cather asked Knopf to hand this letter to Josephy.
Person to whom letter was written
Robert S. Josephy1
Date letter was written
[April 6, 1923]
Place letter was written
New York, New York, United States2
Location of original letter
Cather-Knopf Correspondence, The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, New York, NY

Individual Annotations

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.

Alfred A. Knopf published 450 signed and numbered copies of the first limited edition of April Twilights and Other Poems (1923) on 20 February 1923 for $7.50. The first trade edition appeared on 23 April 1923 and sold for $2.00.

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.

1060

Macpherson, Eugenia Commandeur Hunt (c.1865-?). Wife of Ewan Macpherson. Born in Indiana, Eugenia Commandeur Hunt married the American journalist and writer Ewan Charles Macpherson in Louisville, KY, in 1894. She moved with her husband to New York City in 1900, and spent time with him in Pittsburgh, PA, where he was editor of the literary journal The Library, in which Willa Cather published several stories, including “The Affair at Grosvenor Station.”

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States

Work Annotations

April Twilights and Other Poems (1923) by Willa Cather

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