BIB_ID
380674
Accession number
MA 5026.32
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
1942 May 21.
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.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Hoping the telephone call didn't cost too much; proposing that she fly down to see him and thinking of various ways she could get a ticket; mentioning a "very sweet letter from Josie" [Josephine Herbst]; reporting that they are "still going through this course on the double" and he can "now take a Springfield and a [Garand?] rifle apart"; writing, "Excepting the telephone operator and a lady who sold me a Memorial Day poppy I literally haven't spoken to a woman since I said goodbye to you. And excepting a few glasses of beed -- 3.2 beer -- I haven't had a drink. What a good boy!"
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