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

Record ID: 
381203
Accession number: 
MA 5026.161
Author: 
Cheever, John.
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: 

Complimenting her letters; discussing the knife he requested for Christmas; complaining that his "fanny is getting sore from sitting on this chair"; commenting on new regulations about shining their shoes; mentioning that "Hazel Werner sent a box of something called Coffee-ets ... it says on the label of the can that they give you a quick pick-up. I haven't noticed any yet, but I'm waiting."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.