BIB_ID
380935
Accession number
MA 5026.109
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.1 cm + envelope
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.
The envelope, with a postmark of "Augusta, Feb. 8, 1943," does not belong with this letter, which was clearly written while Cheever was still at Camp Croft, South Carolina. Sergeant Durham, the subject of most of the letter, was Cheever's commander at Camp Croft and became the subject of his short story, "Sergeant Limeburner."
The envelope, with a postmark of "Augusta, Feb. 8, 1943," does not belong with this letter, which was clearly written while Cheever was still at Camp Croft, South Carolina. Sergeant Durham, the subject of most of the letter, was Cheever's commander at Camp Croft and became the subject of his short story, "Sergeant Limeburner."
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Telling a story about Sergeant Durham in which he woke up at night from a drunken stupor, thought it was morning, and began waking up men who had gone to bed; adding that the next morning Durham "over-slept and came raging upstairs with a terrible hangover and blamed [the men] for his over-sleeping"; complaining about K.P.; remarking that they "were on the range again today, shooting at imitation airplanes that were pulled around by wires."
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