BIB_ID
381016
Accession number
MA 5026.125
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Sunday" [1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.1 cm + envelope
Notes
Envelope is addressed to "Mrs. John Cheever, / 329 West 22nd Street, / New York City, New York." Return address is "Pfc. John Cheever ASN 32332516 / Co. "E", 22nd Inf., U.S. Army, / APO #4, / Camp Gordon, Georgia."
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.
This letter was written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., because he mentions going into Spartanburg, S.C., but he does not include a place of writing. The envelope that accompanies the letter belongs with a different letter because the date and place of writing do not match the contents of the letter.
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.
This letter was written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., because he mentions going into Spartanburg, S.C., but he does not include a place of writing. The envelope that accompanies the letter belongs with a different letter because the date and place of writing do not match the contents of the letter.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Writing that he is "just so glad that [he] didn't go into Spartanburg"; calling his sergeant, Sergeant Durham, "a strange and interesting man"; observing of Durham, "I can't figure out whether he's a sadist or whether he just wants to make soldiers out of us"; remarking that Durham seems "tired of being confined to a training camp."
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