In its initial magazine publication, Willa Cather’s story “Two Friends” made reference to a “transit of Venus.” William Lyon Phelps of Yale University wrote to tell Cather that she was in fact describing an occultation of Venus. On July 30, 1932, Cather sent a telegram to her publisher Alfred A. Knopf:
CHANGE TRANSIT TO OCCULTATION STOP I SAW IT WHATEVER IT WAS“Two Friends,” with the proper occultation, appears in Cather’s Obscure Destinies (1932).
WILLA CATHER
The Selected Letters of Willa Cather, ed. Andrew Jewell and Janis Stout (New York: Knopf, 2013).
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