BIB_ID
380727
Accession number
MA 5026.45
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 that she is "so far away" and "it's been such a long time since" he has seen her "that [he is] beginning to feel out of touch"; commenting on a story he is working on for The New Yorker; mentioning that "Walter Bernstein was taken onto the staff of 'Yank'"; adding that his friend Eddie "sat at the very next table to Betty Grable one night at Lindy's"; complaining that it was 100 degrees on Friday and Saturday.
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