Part of a large collection of letters from John Cheever to his wife, Mary Cheever. Letters are described in individual records; see MA 5026 for details.
Writing, "It will be fall in a little while and then it will be winter and you and I will have a beautiful and a wonderful life"; describing a trip to Saratoga with Don Elder and Katherine Anne [Porter]; remarking of Porter, "she seem[s] thoroughly chastened, quite haggard, a much more genuine and attractive person ... and for a moment or two I thought I saw a person through the artificiality and conceit"; proposing that they attend one of Elizabeth [Ames'] "concerts which begin around the first of September"; mentioning that Dan[iel] Fuchs is taking a house in Saratoga for the winter; speculating that "that town will probably end up as an artist's colony"; mentioning that Nathan [Asch] "sold a story to Red Book"; adding that Leonard [Ehrlich] "returned to Northampton" because "Yaddo was too noisey [sic]"; noting that he plans to see Malcolm [Cowley] again "to continue discussing [his] employable qualities."