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

Record ID: 
381178
Accession number: 
MA 5026.153
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 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: 

Telling her that he plans to call her tomorrow; remarking that he "wants [her] to telephone [Bennett] Cerf on Monday"; reporting that his newspaper came out yesterday; describing his dinner with a man named Addis; expressing his approval of her purchase of "a bed-spread"; writing that Sailor's Snug Harbor claims to have "no apartments to fit [their] requirements; noting that "the last couple of nights have been like spring, and when [they] stand reveille the moon is setting the way it used to be at [Camp] Croft"; mentioning that the New Yorker wants him "to tone down the character of Limeburger."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.