Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
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.
Complaining about all the paperwork he is having to do for new arrivals; saying, "I feel like a dope with everybody being made Corporal and Sergeant, etc. and me with my one stripe"; discussing his plans to retake the I.Q. test; remarking that so many of the men have brought their wives to Augusta "that the camp is abandoned after retreat and on week-ends, which is not the way an army camp of this size is supposed to be"; commenting on a conversation between some "southern boys" about how using the expression "Jesus Christ" is "talkin like a damn Yankee"; telling her that he "had charge of signing the pay roll."