Envelope with postmark of "Nov. 24, 1942," a Tuesday; the letter was written the Monday before, Nov. 23, 1942.
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th Street / New York City, New York." Return address is "Pvt. Cheever / Co. "E" 22nd Infantry / Camp Gordon, Georgia"; place of writing is based on return address.
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.
Telling her that most of the men went out on a training exercise but he "didn't push [his] presence on the problem because [he] thought [he] might be able to get in a few licks at the story"; reporting that the story is "the Durham saga and quite long"; adding that they "could use the money the story would bring if the P[ublic] R[elations] O[ffice] will let [him] sell it"; describing the men who work in the personnel office with him; noting that he "went to the movies last night and saw Bette Davis from Boston lose a lot of weight and inherit a lot of money"; remarking that when he "went back to the barracks after the movies ... the men who had been drinking beer at the PX were short-sheeting and putting bran flakes into the beds of the men who were absent"; speculating that they might not "get Christmas furloughs after all"; reporting that "the age for newly commissioned line-officers has been raised from thirty to thirty-six so some of the babies who thought they were secure may still hear the popping of guns."