Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| 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 |
This is a full-rate
Telegram or Cable-
gram unless its de-
ferred character is in-
dicated by a suitable
sign above or preced-
ing the address. WESTERN
UNION NEWCOMB CARLTON, PRESIDENT J. C. WILLEVER, FIRST VICE-PRESIDENT SIGNS
DL = Day Letter
NM = Night Message
NL = Night Letter
LCO = Deferred Cable
CLT = Cable Letter
WLT = Week-End Letter The filing time as shown in the date line on full-rate telegrams and day letters, and the time of receipt at destination as shown on all messages, is STANDARD TIME. Received at MB31 50 NL=ROCHESTER MINN2 27 1928 APR 28 AM 3 10 BLANCHE W KNOPF1= 730 FIFTH AVE NEW YORK NY3= DEAR BLANCHE
I AM STAYING OVER UNTIL THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK FOR TREATMENT4 FOR ARTHRITIS IN MY RIGHT SHOULDER STOP THERE IS NOTHING MORE SERIOUS THAN THAT IM SO SORRY I WONT SEE YOU BUT BON VOYAGE AND MY LOVE STOP PLEASE HAVE MY MAIL HELD AT THE OFFICE=
WILLA CATHER. THE QUICKEST, SUREST AND SAFEST WAY TO SEND MONEY IS BY TELEGRAPH OR CABLE.Information about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let3073.xml
- Letter identifier
- 3073
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, typewritten on recto only of telegram.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Blanche Wolf Knopf 1
- Date letter was written
- April 28, 1928
- Place letter was written
- Rochester, Minnesota, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Irving Kolodin Papers, 1844-1986 (JPB 06-40), New York Public Library, Library for the Performing Arts, Music Division, New York, NY
Individual Annotations
Cather was being treated at the Mayo Clinic.
Person Annotations
Knopf, Blanche Wolf (1894-1966). Vice President of New York
publisher Alfred Knopf, Inc. Blanche Wolf founded Alfred Knopf,
Inc., in 1915 with her future husband Alfred Knopf. They married in 1916 and
their son Alfred “Pat” Knopf was born in 1918. Active in the business
throughout her life, Blanche Knopf recruited a number of prominent European
and Latin American writers to the Knopf list (in translation) by traveling
to meet them. In recognition of her work with writers such as Jean-Paul
Sartre and Albert Camus, she was inducted into the French Legion of Honor in
1949. She became president of Alfred Knopf, Inc., in 1957 when her husband
became chairman. Through her work in the publishing house she also promoted
writers of the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes. Cather’s letters
to Knopf focus primarily on business but the two also became friends.
Place Annotations
