M. Manley Aaron ([April 18 to 25, 1929])

#2595: Willa Cather to M. Manley Aaron, [April 18 to 25, 1929]

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FAIRMONT HOTEL
NOB HILL
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.²
D.M. LINNARD, PRESIDENT
LE ROY LINNARD, MANAGER
CABLE ADDRESS
"FAIRMONT" Ans'd by _____
APR 26 1929
Filed by _____ Dear Miss Aaron¹;

Please mail (or express) six copies of Borzoi Pocket³ "Youth and the Bright Medusa"⁴ to me at the address below and charge to my account W. S. Cather 311 Carroll Park, East ~~[illegible]~~Long Beach⁵. I think they would arrive more quickly if you sent them by parcel post.

1 Proust[?]

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let2595.xml
Letter identifier: 2595
Contents: Document is one handwritten leaf.
Person to whom letter was written: M. Manley Aaron¹
Date letter was written: [April 18 to 25, 1929]
Explanation of conjectured date: The date range is the week before April 26, 1929, when the letter was stamped as received.
Place letter was written: San Francisco, California, United States²
Location of original letter: Cather-Knopf Correspondence, The Dobkin Family Collection of Feminism, New York, NY

Individual Annotations

Youth and the Bright Medusa was published in a Borzoi Pocket Book printing of 1,500 copies in March 1929.

Person Annotations

0343

Aaron, M. Manley. Alfred Knopf’s secretary. As secretary to the president of Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., Willa Cather’s publisher, Manley Aaron was responsible for clerical matters, such as tracking Cather’s address as she traveled or mailing her supplies. However, Alfred Knopf also delegated to Aaron the task of negotiating with magazines for the publication of Cather’s short stories collected in Obscure Destinies (1932), and she took direct responsibility for other matters for Cather and other authors as well.

Place Annotations

San Francisco, California, United States

Long Beach, California, United States

Work Annotations

Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) by Willa Cather