Typed letter signed : [Los Angeles], to [Mary Cheever], "Thursday" [1945].

Record ID: 
381346
Accession number: 
MA 5026.179
Author: 
Cheever, John.
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.