Record ID:
381203
Accession number:
MA 5026.161
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 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:
Complimenting her letters; discussing the knife he requested for Christmas; complaining that his "fanny is getting sore from sitting on this chair"; commenting on new regulations about shining their shoes; mentioning that "Hazel Werner sent a box of something called Coffee-ets ... it says on the label of the can that they give you a quick pick-up. I haven't noticed any yet, but I'm waiting."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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