BIB_ID
380729
Accession number
MA 5026.46
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Tuesday night" [1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.1 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 he's glad to know she is "safe in New York"; noting that seeing her "was everything good and it made coming back into the army easier instead of harder"; reporting that Sergeant Durham woke them up at 5:30 and they all brought their beds "out of doors because there has been a plague of lice in the barracks"; adding that they "spent the morning digging fox-holes under simulated fire" and then raced home to get their mattresses inside before the rain started; describing a man who sleeps behind him who "got very drunk" and was picked up by the "Military Police" and had to spend the night in jail and is facing a court-martial.
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