Record ID:
380821
Accession number:
MA 5026.78
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 cm
Notes:
On Camp Gordon letterhead.
Signed with an "X."
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:
Describing his work as a prison guard and commenting on the prisoners; mentioning E.E. Cummings; remarking that he was in charge of supervising "two men sentenced to hard labor" while they chopped wood; adding that prisoners are "allowed to mail only one letter a week," but they can usually get a "gullible guard" like him to mail their "voluminous correspondence"; reporting that his platoon sergeant asked him not to take the clerical job and "promis[ed] to do everything he could for [him] if [Cheever] remained with the platoon."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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