Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Autograph letter signed : place not specified, to [Mary Cheever], "still Sunday" [1942 or 1943].

BIB_ID
381085
Accession number
MA 5026.137
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
"still Sunday" [1942 or 1943].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (1 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.
Provenance
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Summary
Reporting that someone in Saratoga got his address and sent him "a beer mat signed by several of [his] drinking companions in the Warden Bar and Grill"; adding that he got "a long letter from Cookie"; discussing the news from Yaddo and mentioning Carson McCullers, Katherine Anne [Porter], and Horace Gregory.