Probably 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.
Telling her he hasn't written because he was on "regimental guard for a couple of days"; quoting from a letter his friend Eddie sent to him from a man named Perlman; noting that "special service is trying to get [him] released from line duty from now until Christmas so that [he] can write the book of a musical show to be called 'White Christmas'"; discussing the men who supervise him; mentioning a letter from Bill [William] Maxwell; commenting on how much cleaning they have been doing for an inspection; observing, "Commissioned officers are much more afraid of their superiors than enlisted men are of commissioned officers."