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 |
Is it material for a caption you want, I wonder? I spent the summer in Paris4, and during the autumn I was working on a
new novel5 down on the French Riviera, near
Hyeéres6, where I worked every
day in a tent in the pine woods overlooking the Mediterranean7. This winter I shall spend in New York2, finishing my novel and revising the French translation8 of "My
AÁntonia"9. The new Swedish edition of "The Song of the Lark"10 has just arrived from Stockholm11, published in two volumes under the
title "Larksangen"12.
This is all I can think of to tell you, and I hope it's what you want.
Very sincerely yours Willa Sibert Cather
