Record ID:
381247
Accession number:
MA 5026.168
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:
Telling her that there are "no three-day passes": "they seem to have clamped down altogether on liberty with the exception of emergency furloughs"; reporting that "two more men in the company are fathers"; comparing the men in W.W. II to the men in W.W. I; mentioning that it's cold in Georgia again.
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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