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.
Discussing a photograph he had taken in Augusta that he does not like; mentioning that she had "better call [Bennett] Cerf and tell him to disregard the photograph"; telling her about his plans for the evening; reporting that he opened the presents from Tom and Elizabeth and Polly; adding that "the sweater is beautiful and it also exhaled a beautiful Polly-smell which is something you don't find in an Army camp or even in Georgia. In Georgia the women use perfume that smells a great deal like fly-killer"; remarking that he helped a man whose wife is having a baby get a ten-day furlough; suggesting that she talk to Sailor's Snug Harbor about finding a new apartment.