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 |
The jacket3 seems4 to me very good.
Please write your man in London5 and ask him
to try very hard to get6 this bookpamphlet7 for me. There is no date on the pamphlet.
Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let2659.xml
- Letter identifier
- 2659
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Alfred A. Knopf1
- Date letter was written
- [February 2 to 4, 1933]
- Explanation of conjectured date
-
Cather is responding to a letter dated February 1, 1933, and normally responded quickly to Knopf's letters when she was in New York City.
- 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
On 1 February 1933, Alfred Knopf sent Cather the dust jacket for a reprinting of April Twilights and Other Poems for her review.
On 10 February 1933, Alfred Knopf's secretary wrote Cather giving her information about the publication of Richard Wagner's letters to his first wife, Minna Wagner, in translation in the United States. Scribner's, the U.S. publisher, informed her it was out of print.
Person Annotations
Knopf, Alfred A. (1892-1984). President of New York
publisher Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Knopf received his BA from
Columbia University in New York City in 1912 and founded Alfred Knopf, Inc.,
in 1915 with his future wife Blanche Wolf. They married in 1916, and their
son Alfred “Pat” Knopf was born in 1918. Cather chose him as her publisher
beginning with Youth and the Bright Medusa (1920) and
One of Ours (1922), partly because she was
dissatisfied with the promotion of her books by Houghton Mifflin but also
because she recognized the high quality of Knopf's books, as well as what
she regarded as his intelligent advertising. Knopf was noted for publishing
the work of leading European and South American writers in translation, as
well as original works. Knopf and Cather’s extensive correspondence
testifies to their mutual professional respect and to what also became an
important personal friendship.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
April Twilights and Other Poems (1923) by Willa Cather
Richard to Minna Wagner: Letters to his First Wife (1909) by William Ashton Ellis
