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 |
Thank you most heartily for your friendly letter, which has been forwarded to me. Your reference3 to the Cathedral4 makes me quite homesick for New Mexico5. I have spent so many happy summers there. The Spaniards, by the way, were not any more cruel in religion than in war and diplomacy—in sport even!
Cordially yours Willa Cather August 21 WHALE COVE GRAND MANAN2 NEW BRUNSWICK CANDA Mr. Huxton Marley1 1404 31st Street San Diego6 California U. S. A. NORTH HEAD, N.B.2 AU 24 1932 AMInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let3135.xml
- Letter identifier
- 3135
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on recto only. Includes one envelope, handwritten.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Huxton Marley 1
- Date letter was written
- August 21 [1932]
- Place letter was written
- Grand Manan, New Brunswick, Canada2
- Location of original letter
- Willa Cather Papers, 1899-1949 (MSS 6494), University of Virginia, Special Collections, Charlottesville, VA
Individual Annotations
In Death Comes for the Archbishop, the fictional Archbishop Latour plans the cathedral in Santa Fe, NM, built by the historical Archbishop Lamy.
Person Annotations
Marley, Huxton. No further information is availale about this person.
Place Annotations
Grand Manan, New Brunswick, CanadaCather and Edith
Lewis frequently vacationed on Grand Manan Island during the summer and
early fall for about twenty years, beginning in 1922. For the first few
years, they stayed at the Inn at Whale Cove, a collection of cottages with a
main house operated by Sarah Jacobus. Cather and Lewis rented Orchardside
Cottage from Jacobus until they had their own cottage built. In 1926, Lewis
acquired land on Grand Manan, and construction was completed in 1928. Cather
and Lewis returned to this cottage almost every summer until
1940.
Work Annotations
Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927) by Willa Cather
