Guide to Reading Letter Transcriptions
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| Textual Feature | Appearance |
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| 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 |
35 FIFTH AVENUE
New York2 Wednesday Dear Mr. Adler1;
I am hoping that this fulfillment of a promise4, and the proofs of my new book5, will move you to do great things for me.
Faithfully yours Willa Cather Willa Cather Willa Cather The Grosvenor 35 FIFTH AVENUE NEW YORK CITY2 Mr. Elmer Adler1 Pynson Printers Inc. 239 West 43d st New York2 N. Y. MADISON SQ,STA.N.Y.52 FEB 11 1931 730 PM PersonalInformation about this letter:
- Source File:
- cat.let3291.xml
- Letter identifier
- 3291
- Contents
- Document is one leaf, handwritten on the recto of the leaf. Includes one envelope and one enclosed typescript.
- Person to whom letter was written
- Elmer Adler 1
- Date letter was written
- [February 11, 1931]
- Accompanying this letter
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Includes enclosed typescript of "My First Novels (There Were Two)", signed on the bottom of the fourth page by Willa Cather.
- Place letter was written
- New York, New York, United States2
- Location of original letter
- Henry Van Dyke Family Papers (C0276), Princeton University, Firestone Library, Princeton, NJ
Individual Annotations
Grosvenor Hotel (New York City): When Cather and Edith Lewis lost their 5 Bank Street apartment in 1927, they moved into the Grosvenor Hotel, where they continued to live until 1932. The hotel was located at 35 Fifth Avenue in the Manhattan borough of New York City.
Person Annotations
Adler, Elmer (1884-1962). American printer, publisher,
editor, and author. After moving from Rochester, NY, to New York
City, Adler founded the Pynson Printers in 1922. He also became a partner in
Random House in 1922 and founded the Colophon: A Book
Collector’s Quarterly in 1930. Adler’s Pynson press produced deluxe
limited editions of April Twilights and Other Poems
(1923) and December Night (1933) (an excerpt from Death Comes for the Archbishop). He also designed the
edition of Death Comes for the Archbishop illustrated
by Harold von Schmidt (1927), the title page for My Mortal
Enemy (1926) and the title page and dust jacket for Shadows on the Rock (1931). Adler approached Cather
in 1929 about contributing to a planned series in the Colophon on “Getting into Print”; her essay “My First Novels
(there were two)” finally appeared in 1931. In 1940, Adler established the
Department of Graphic Arts at Princeton University, where he remained until
1952. He then moved to Puerto Rico to establish La Casa del Libro, with
which he was associated until his death.
Place Annotations
Work Annotations
"My First Novels (there were two)," Colophon (1931) by Willa Cather
Shadows on the Rock (1931) by Willa Cather
