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

Record ID: 
381216
Accession number: 
MA 5026.163
Author: 
Cheever, John.
Credit: 
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description: 
1 item (1 p.) ; 26.7 cm
Notes: 

Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., though he does not 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 he hasn't written because he has been busy publishing the camp paper; commenting on Lin Streeter, the cartoonist who works with him on the paper; discussing "a shake-up in publications for the Fourth Division"; mentioning what he has heard about "Kharkov and the Richelieu and the break-through in Tunisia"; promising that he will "try to get up to New York sometime in March."

Provenance: 
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.