Louis N. Feipel (January 26, 1932) | Willa Cather Archive

#2809: Sarah J. Bloom on behalf of Willa Cather to Louis N. Feipel, January 26, 1932

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January 26, 1932. Dear Mr. Feipel¹:

Miss Cather is in³ the Southwest⁴ and will not be in New York² for some time. She went away in order to be able to work without interruption, and I am not forwarding any mail to her except letters from her family and old personal friends.

Very truly yours, Sarah J. Bloom⁵ Secretary

Information about this letter:

Source File:: cat.let2809.xml
Letter identifier: 2809
Contents: Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only.
Person to whom letter was written: Louis N. Feipel ¹
Date letter was written: January 26, 1932
Place letter was written: New York, New York, United States²
Location of original letter: , Unknown Current Location

Individual Annotations

Cather was in Red Cloud, NE, in January 1932, and retured to New York City in early February

Person Annotations

1921

Feipel, Louis Nicholas (1883-1968). American librarian and bibliographer. Born in Chicago, IL, son of Nicholas Feipel and Mary Hottoa Feipel, both immigrants from Luxembourg, Louis Feipel attended Northwestern University from 1904 to 1906, then became an assistant librarian at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, MD. In 1914 he became an administrator at the Brooklyn, NY, Public Library, where he remained for thirty-five years. In the 1920s he began his hobby of carefully reading current books and writing detailed letters to the authors, listing errors in the editing, typesetting, and proofreading of each book, as well as raising points about grammar, usages, and inconsistencies. According to a 1930 profile in the New Yorker, Feipel had received about 300 responses from the authors to whom he had written.

0102

Bloom, Sarah J. (1889-1961). Cather's personal secretary. Born in New York in 1889 to Russian immigrants Solomon and Bertha Bloom, Sarah J. Bloom worked for Cather from some time in the 1920s until Cather's death and continued to work for Edith Lewis on matters pertaining to Cather's literary estate thereafter. Bloom typed Cather's literary manuscripts and managed Cather's correspondence, typing dictated letters and sometimes responding for Cather when she was traveling. Bloom’s work for Cather supplemented full-time office employment in New York City (for many years she worked for the New York State Public Service Commission). She thus came to Cather and Lewis's apartment on weekends to take dictation, pick up and deliver typescripts, and deliver typed letters for signature. She died in New York city in 1961.

Place Annotations

New York, New York, United States

Southwest, United States