BIB_ID
381061
Accession number
MA 5026.134
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"Wednesday" [1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 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
Thanking her for her letter and telling her, "you mustn't worry about what to write me, or what I say about having departed from civilian life"; noting that they did not go out to the rifle range but "marched out into the woods and filled in the holes [they] had dug yesterday"; adding that they "spent the afternoon taking Browning Automatic Rifles apart and putting them together again"; mentioning a letter from Flannery [Lewis].
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