BIB_ID
380582
Accession number
MA 5026.18
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Tuesday" [1941 or earlier].
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
Describing his room at Yaddo; remarking that Yaddo has been very "successful in recapturing the atmosphere of a country-seat" and "it's the only place [he] know[s] of that has not under-gone violent change in the last five years"; mentioning that he went for a walk with Rebecca Pitts; noting that at Yaddo "there's a phantom sitting in every chair, standing under every tree"; listing additional people who are expected at Yaddo, including Flannery Lewis, Bruce Mitchell, "a couple named Erskand," and Leonard Erlich [i.e. Ehrlich].
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