BIB_ID
380812
Accession number
MA 5026.71
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942] Sept. 10.
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 26.3 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
Writing, "My gold-bricking ended yesterday"; describing a lazy day of sleeping, reading [Thomas] De Quincey, drinking beers, and eating peanuts; reporting that "the camp laundry is terrible" so he took his uniforms into Augusta for washing; noting that he bought a copy of the New Yorker; recommending that she read "a magnificent article on Major George Fielding Eliot"; describing the men on his buses who are going on or coming back from furloughs; mentioning a letter from Malcolm Cowley with news from Yaddo; telling her that "with the exception of waitresses," he hasn't "had a conversation with a female" since she left; telling her, "you are my only girl."
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