Record ID:
381346
Accession number:
MA 5026.179
Credit:
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description:
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.6 cm
Notes:
Written while Cheever was in Los Angeles in Apr. 1945.
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:
Writing that "this wil probably be [his] last night in Los Angeles"; reporting that he ate dinner at a drug store, went to a movie, and read [George Eliot's] Adam Bede; remarking that he finished Adam Bede and will start Mill on the Floss tomorrow; adding that "the weather here has been what the weather in California is supposed to be; very hot sun, cool in the shade."
Provenance:
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
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