BIB_ID
380661
Accession number
MA 5026.29
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.3 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
Telling her that they were supposed to be inspected yesterday, but "then the officer didn't come to inspect [them]"; noting that he will "be interested to know how Eddie [Newhouse] makes out with his commission"; adding that she does not need to read the letters his father sends to her "unless they interest" her; reporting that he received a letter from "Gus and Bill" [William Maxwell, Cheever's editor at The New Yorker] and they bought two of his stories; informing her that [Harold] Ross "has written to Colonel White about 'Yank,'" but adding that "they can't do anything until [he] finish[es] basic training; encouraging her to come down to South Carolina for a weekend "if it's practical as far as time is involved."
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