Typed letter signed : place not specified, to [Mary Cheever], "Sunday night" [1941 or earlier].

Record ID: 
380607
Accession number: 
MA 5026.21
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes: 

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.

Summary: 

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."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.