BIB_ID
380677
Accession number
MA 5026.33
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942] May 28.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.3 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th St. / New York City / New York." The return address is "Pvt. John Cheever U.S. Army / Co. C 35th Infantry Training BN. / Camp Croft, S.C." Place of writing is based on return address.
Envelope with postmark; year of date is from postmark.
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.
Envelope with postmark; year of date is from postmark.
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
Discussing his handwriting and saying, "if you can't read it at all tell me and I'll start printing"; remarking, "I am beginning to feel old both on my feet and my eyes. Yesterday I felt every day of thirty. My eyes are funny so when I aim a gun I have to do it with both my eyes open"; telling her that [Maxim] Lieber sent down his story and he plans to make revisions and then send it to her for typing; wondering whether the money for the story will pay for her to fly down to South Carolina over a weekend.
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