Typed letter signed : place not specified, to [Mary Cheever], [1942 or 1943].

Record ID: 
381172
Accession number: 
MA 5026.151
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes: 

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.

Summary: 

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."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.