BIB_ID
380849
Accession number
MA 5026.87
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1942 Nov. 11].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 p.) ; 27.8 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever / 19 East 8th Street / New York City, N.Y." Return address is "Pvt. John Cheever, U.S. Army / Co. "E" 22nd Infantry / Camp Gordon, Georgia"; place of writing is based on return address.
Envelope with postmark of "Nov. 12, 1942," a Thursday; Cheever's letter was written the Wednesday before, Nov. 11, 1942.
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.
Envelope with postmark of "Nov. 12, 1942," a Thursday; Cheever's letter was written the Wednesday before, Nov. 11, 1942.
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
Writing, "it makes everyone happy to know that the war has taken on, for us, a good turn and an active one"; telling her that he went to the "early show at the movies and saw old man Somerset [Maugham]'s Moon and Sixpence"; adding, "I hope the good news keeps up and that we can beging to look for the fifty years of peace and plenty that we may have."
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