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

Record ID: 
381253
Accession number: 
MA 5026.170
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (2 p.) ; 20.3 cm
Notes: 

Probably 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: 

Noting that the new "apartment sounds swell"; telling her that there is a rumor they are moving to Fort Dix in April; adding that he "distributed the book carefully among a few officers"; reporting that "Alcorn was fired out of the company" and they have a new company commander; remarking that "so far plans are being made for [him] to bring out the paper wherever [they] go"; mentioning Lin Streeter, the cartoonist on the paper; observing of his book, "I was glad to see the stories in a book because they give me an idea of how much I have to learn and what not to do."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.