BIB_ID
380775
Accession number
MA 5026.57
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942] Aug. 29.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.5 cm
Notes
On Camp Gordon letterhead.
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.
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
Describing a "pointless" day in which he visited Aiken, South Carolina, which "turned out to be one [dairy?] store, one feed store, etc. one enormous high school, a lot of nondescript and very run-down houses, and a lot of jungle growth. If it hadn't been for the palmetto trees it might have passed for some parts of Brooklyn, and not the best parts either"; mentioning a letter from [Maxim] Lieber, his agent; adding that he doesn't think he should "come up to New York until [he] make[s] some more money."
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