[Rarebooks] FS: Scarce Willa Cather Handwritten Letter about pre-publication excerpt of DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP

[Charles Agvent]

CATHER, Willa. AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS) REGARDING DEATH COMES FOR 
THE ARCHBISHOP. Jaffrey [NH]. Superb one-page letter on Cather's 
monogrammed printed stationery dated 15 October [1926] and SIGNED by 
Cather at the conclusion. Addressed to Dr. [Henry Goddard] Leach, editor 
of THE FORUM, regarding the first installment of her best-known work, 
DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP, which was serialized in the magazine 
from January through June 1927. In full: "I'm so glad you like the first 
instalment -- it cheers one a lot to have an editor feel really pleased. 
The Virgin of Guadaloupe begins the second instalment -- it's well to 
sound that legendary note more than once, I think. Besides, that legend 
will set the stage for the second number as the Prologue does for the 
first. I'll send you the second, by the way, when I return to New York 
the first week in November. Cordially yours, Willa Cather." Cather first 
visited the small New Hampshire resort town of Jaffrey in 1917 for a 
three-week vacation but stayed for two months and worked on MY ANTONIA 
in a snug dormer room on the third floor of the Shattuck Inn. She would 
return regularly to Jaffrey in the years that followed, always staying 
in the same room, and eventually was buried in the town. A rare example 
of Cather writing to an editor about the early stages of publication of 
her most important book. Usual creases. Near Fine. (#011362)        
$7,000.00

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