BIB_ID
380590
Accession number
MA 5026.19
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [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
Reporting that the New Yorker turned down one of his stories; complaining that dinner at Yaddo was "very dull" because "people are still intimidated by the atmosphere of the house and the experience of being thrown in with twenty total strangers"; describing an interaction between [Katherine Anne] Porter and "a number named Ekstrand"; mentioning Flannery Lewis and Nathan [Asch].
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