BIB_ID
380805
Accession number
MA 5026.66
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 22.8 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 Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Gordon, Ga., but he doesn't include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Telling her that he got a letter "from a Doctor at the Neurological Institute asking [him] why [he] had given up writing"; reporting that a "furlough list will be posted on the ninth"; noting that he spends "all [his] leisure planning how [he] will spend [his] time from the minute [he] step[s] off the train at Penn. Station and take[s] a cab to Eighth Street."
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