BIB_ID
380464
Accession number
MA 5026.14
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Saturday" [1940 Sept.?].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.9 cm
Notes
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.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Commenting on the beautiful September weather; reporting that he hasn't "done much work" but "spent yesterday reading passages of the first novel, trying to define [his] weak spots"; adding that he has a story in the New Yorker this week, "one of the better kind"; describing Quincy as "a ship-yard town having a boom"; saying that he "ought to return to New York" soon because he didn't tell anyone he was leaving and there will be mail; mentioning that he might be able to get "some money out of [George] Davis."
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