Record ID:
380542
Accession number:
MA 5026.16
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes:
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 that he will return to New York on Tuesday rather than Monday; noting that he is driving his mother to Cape Cod tomorrow; reporting that "the fire-works factory is manufacturying [sic] grenades"; mentioning a reporter who came to question him, "looking for a feature story about home-town boy doesn't make so good"; adding that he "dread[s] going back to Bank Street, particularly while [she is] not in the city."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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