Record ID:
380893
Accession number:
MA 5026.100
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm + envelope
Notes:
Envelope with postmark; date is from postmark.
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th Street / New York City, New York." Return address is "Pvt Cheever / Co. "E" 22nd Inf. / Camp Gordon, Ga."; 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.
Summary:
Telling her that "the watch is wonderful and hasn't lost a second"; remarking that "everyone is in a stew about the furloughs"; commenting on a man named Henry Addis; reporting that he is working on "the Durham Saga."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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