BIB_ID
381036
Accession number
MA 5026.130
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (3 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 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
Reporting that they are supposed to be shipped tomorrow and telling her he will write "as soon as [he] get[s] settled"; writing, "at this stage of the game I feel sure that I can get the job on Yank if I want it, and so I don't care particularly where we go"; describing a night of drinking beers; mentioning a "box of cookies and an enormous jar of hard candy" from Josie [Josephine Herbst]; speculating about where they will be going next; discussing a photograph.
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