BIB_ID
380725
Accession number
MA 5026.44
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26 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, "they've just opened a place called the Day Room in which there are no radios, no pianos, no ping-pong games, etc. It's full of serious-looking young men and the silence here ought to make a big difference in my life and in the amount of literature I turn out"; mentioning that he is now working on a batallion newspaper; wondering whether this was a "wise decision" as "the stuff is pretty dumb" and "it will also take up all of [his] spare time"; mentioning Sergeant Durham and Ezra Pound; remarking that the letters he receives from his father make him think that his father is becoming senile; describing military practice drills.
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