BIB_ID
381028
Accession number
MA 5026.128
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (4 p.) ; 25.3 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 Croft, S.C., though he does not include a place of writing.
Written while Cheever was at Camp Croft, S.C., though he does not include a place of writing.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Writing that "so much has happened at Camp Croft"; describing "the [firing] range and all the sweat and excitement about that"; commenting on a night out in Spartanburg with men from Camp Croft; telling her about an inspection by Sergeant Dunham while Dunham was "very drunk"; adding that he misses Dunham now that Dunham is away on furlough: "we're not nearly as orderly and as well-disciplined a group as we were under his whip"; mentioning K.P. and pay day.
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