Record ID:
380823
Accession number:
MA 5026.80
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 cm
Notes:
On Camp Gordon letterhead.
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:
Reporting that "one of the members of the band went out with a girl who turned out to have spinal menengitis" so they won't have "close order drill in the morning, retreat parade, or formal guard mount ... until the band comes out of quarantine"; telling her that Izzy Goldstein spoke to Harry Brown at Yank, "who told him [Cheever's] name is in for a transfer to Yank which may come through any day"; describing the camp's preparations for an inspection; calling her his "brave blood donor" and joking that "this private first class would have fainted dead away."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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