Typed letter signed : [Camp Gordon, Ga.], to [Mary Cheever], "Sunday (After the phone call)" [1943 Feb. 14].

Record ID: 
380945
Accession number: 
MA 5026.112
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.7 cm + envelope
Notes: 

Envelope with postmark of "Feb. 15, 1943," a Monday; Cheever's letter was written the Sunday before, Feb. 14, 1943.
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th Street / New York City, N.Y." Return address is "Pfc. John Cheever ASN 32332516 / Co. "E" 22nd Infantry / U.S. Army, APO #4 / 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: 

Sending her letters he forgot to mail; telling her that he went into town with Seabiscuit; remarking, "I don't like the word bourgeois, but it's what Seabiscuit is," and giving a long description of Seabiscuit's character; commenting on a night of drinking and talking with "a nice Irishman named Kileen" and a corporal from Alabama; mentioning Charlie Baxter.

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.