Record ID:
381220
Accession number:
MA 5026.166
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.3 cm
Notes:
Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., though he does not 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 he doesn't think she is extravagant; complaining that he is not feeling well: "My neck is swollen and stiff and I feel dopey"; reporting that the books on math arrived today and he is planning to "bone up tonight on long division"; discussing some of the other soldiers; noting that "range season starts again in a week or so" and they will "all fire every weapon assigned" to them.
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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