BIB_ID
381092
Accession number
MA 5026.138
Creator
Cheever, John.
Display Date
[1942].
Credit line
Gift of the Family of Carter Burden, 1998.
Description
1 item (2 p.) ; 25.1 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 the money order; observing that "the trip to Hendersonville was very costly as were the weekends in Spartanburg"; commenting on the hot weather in New York; noting that it has been "around a hundred" in South Carolina; describing a man who passed out due to the heat; adding that "Dunham caught hell" because of this incident; hoping he will be shipped somewhere closer to New York so she can visit him.
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