BIB_ID
380682
Accession number
MA 5026.36
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Monday" [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.
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
Telling her that he finished "the Collins story yesterday but it's too heavy to mail free so [he is] now waiting around for a chance to get to the post-office and buy some stamps"; remarking that "much advice and many admonitions accompanied the pay-envelopes, and they apparently expect hell to break loose tonight"; noting that he expects "to spend the night writing illegible letters" because he has "lost [his] taste for hard liquor"; describing his afternoon the day before, and reporting that he "bought a copy of the New Yorker and read it all," including a story that Danny [Daniel] Fuchs wrote at Yaddo.
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