Record ID:
381195
Accession number:
MA 5026.159
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 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:
Telling her how good it was to spend seven days with her; describing his journey back to Augusta; commenting on the view from the train: "This trip was the first time I've gone from Florence to Augusta in the daylight and I had a good look at the country which was nothing again but varieties of poverty and soil-erosion"; discussing his day in Augusta once he arrived.
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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